Overview

Description

The DAQ on a Stick Renesas Strain Gauge is one of a series of reference designs highlighting Renesas' precision products with different microcontrollers. This reference design is a self-contained demo showing a complete signal chain solution using Renesas precision parts and a Renesas microcontroller. The complete reference design is conveniently housed in a USB stick form factor. This compact design draws power through the USB port and uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to display the real-time voltage readings from a bridge strain gauge or a user supplied sensor. The board image to the right shows the data acquisition (DAQ) on a stick connected to an external foil strain gauge.

The image below shows a simplified schematic of the strain gauge design. The design uses Renesas' ISL28134 chopper amplifier, ISL22316 digitally controlled potentiometer (DCP), ISL43840 dual 4-channel multiplexer (Mux) configured as a differential Mux, ISL21010 4.096V voltage reference, ISL21010 3.3V voltage reference, the ISL26102 24-bit Delta-Sigma converter, and the R5F10JBC (RL78/G1C) microcontroller.

The installation application includes the following items:

  • GUI software
  • Desktop shortcut for easy access
  • Application note and schematics

WEEE Questionnaire: The WEEE Return Questionnaire is intended for the return of EEEs supplied by Renesas Electronics Europe to its customers in the European Union only.

Disclaimer: THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED “AS-IS” FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY. RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES (collectively, “Renesas”) DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND MERCHANTABILITY. Renesas provides evaluation platforms and design proposals to help our customers to develop products. However, factors beyond Renesas' control, including without limitation, component variations, temperature changes and PCB layout, could significantly affect the product performance. It is the user’s responsibility to verify the actual circuit performance.

Features

  • Self-contained demo platform
  • 24-bit ADC with programmable sample rate
  • Zero-drift amplifiers
  • Real-time graphing on the GUI
  • Programmable gains available for user supplied sensors

Applications

Documentation

Type Title Date
Manual - Development Tools PDF 721 KB
Datasheet PDF 1.28 MB
Datasheet PDF 2.69 MB
Datasheet PDF 3.32 MB
Datasheet PDF 1017 KB
Datasheet PDF 1.30 MB
Datasheet PDF 748 KB
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Design & Development

Software & Tools

Software Downloads

Type Title Date
Library EXE 14.78 MB
PCB Design Files ZIP 569 KB
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