WEBENCH Sensor Designer provides complete circuit solutions for common sensing, transmitter, or transducer applications. Start with a sensor from a list of market leaders, or specify your own sensor requirements by parameter by creating a custom sensor. WEBENCH Sensor Designer provides you with optimized signal path performance, bill of materials, budgetary cost, and links to evaluation boards and other tools for testing and validating your simulated solution.
The various WEBENCH Sensor Designer tools support a range of sensor types, including: bridge sensors, pressure, load cells, photodiode, thermocouple, and IC temperature sensors solutions. Click here to see sensor path application diagrams.
These sensor solutions fit many different applications including industrial process control, factory automation, monitoring, calibration, medical instrumentation, drug delivery systems, high temperature furnace monitoring, ranging and distance, weigh systems, compressors, refrigeration, hydraulics, power generation, fluid management, barcode scanners, and HVAC systems.
The tool provides a complete sensor to digital serial output solution, including sensor interface, excitation source, precision amplifier and filter, 8-bit through 16-bit ADCs, and a serialized output to connect to various back-end systems. WEBENCH Sensor Designer makes it easy to design and optimize your sensor path. Just click a sensor type below to start your design:
How to use this design tool:
1. Explore & Learn
Click the blue Start Design button for your desired sensor type and choose a pre-loaded sensor, or enter a custom sensor to meet your needs. Then click the 'Create Design' button.
2. Compare & Select Review the resulting schematic, bill of materials, performance summary, and other technical results in the Design Summary overview. Click on any of the displayed panels to review more advanced or detailed information behind each panel. You can modify design parameters or further optimize your design by selecting a different sensor, amplifier, ADC, or other system parameters.
3. Design & Build Print a report to document your design in the Documentation panel or move forward to order evaluation kits, component samples, and other tools in the Build It panel in seconds. Furthermore, download applicable datasheets, application notes, and other design tips.
Tip: If your monitor is 1024x768, press the F11 key to set your browser to full screen. You can also collapse the header and the side detail panels out of the working view by clicking the small box up to the right and just under the header or at the top of the left design panel. The newest generation of the WEBENCH toolset requires Adobe Flash 9.0. If you do not have Adobe Flash 9.0 installed, you can download it here.
