Integrated power quality monitoring front-end from ADI
Achieving extremely accurate, high-performance power quality monitoring – ADI says – typically requires customized development, which can be expensive and time-consuming. The ADE9000 AFE is an off-the-shelf solution with embedded power quality algorithms and integrated high-performance analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) in one single device. This integration simplifies complex algorithm programming by the developer, reduces cost and component count, and increases speed to market while still achieving high accuracy and enabling EN61000-4-30 Class S for power quality.
Equipment in factories, hospitals, commercial buildings, and other settings is often susceptible to service interruption, premature failure, and long-term damage caused by disturbances and variations in the power supply. In many cases, this pollution in the power supply can go undetected before damaging expensive equipment. The ADE9000 AFE enables designers of power quality monitoring solutions to measure and analyze pollution in order to prevent these disruptions and long-term damage, primarily for three-phase power meters.
The ADE9000 AFE integrates seven high-performance ADCs, a high-end reference, a flexible digital signal processing (DSP) core, and proprietary algorithms into a single device. High accuracy is driven by the ADCs and reference which provide low drift over temperature and the highest accuracy over the widest dynamic range. Pre-programmed proprietary power quality software provides real-time monitoring and harmonic analysis, including magnitude and phase information. This enables timely and cost-saving corrective action when necessary. For power system meter designers who do not require the advanced power quality features of the ADE9000, the ADE9078 energy metering AFE is available for polyphase utility grade meter applications.
In a 40-lead LFCSP package, the device is priced at $6.39 (1000). An evaluation board costs $390.00. The ADE9078 is $5.85 (1000).
More on ADI’s energy measurement ICs portfolio:
Analog Devices: www.analog.com/ADE9000
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