Microchip ADM00640, Instrumentation Amplifier Evaluation Board for MCP6N16

MCP6N16 Instrumentation Amplifier Development Board

This Development Board from Microchip is a platform for evaluating the performance of the MCP6N16, a Zero-Drift Instrumentation Amplifier designed for low-voltage single-supply operation with rail-to-rail input and output performance. Featured on the board is differential input filtering, two jumper selectable gain settings, output filtering and an external voltage reference circuit to allow for an adjustable output common-mode level shifting.

The board is supplied pre-populated with the MCP6N16-100 variant that is optimised for gains of 100V/V or higher. Other gain variants of the MCP6N16 family of devices can also be tested in place of the supplied MCP6N16-100 with a few simple adjustments of the gain setting resistors.

Instrumentation Amplifiers, Microchip

Instrumentation Amplifier is a type of differential amplifier that has been outfitted with input buffer amplifiers, which eliminate the need for input impedance matching. Characteristics include very low DC offset, low drift, low noise, very high open-loop gain, very high common-mode rejection ratio, and very high input impedances.