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TDC-GP30
Hardware Description
Demo Kit Manual
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• v1-00 • 2019-Feb-26
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Hardware Description
3.1
Introduction
The GP30-DEMO MODULE board, shown in Figure 5, is a front-end for a water or heat meters. The
transducers and temperature sensors are directly connected to this board. It comes with a 32.768 kHz
quartz (X2) and a 4 MHz ceramic oscillator (X1). All ports of TDC-GP30 are available. Additional patch
fields allow an easy extension with additional circuits. Those can be amplifiers or analog switches for
operation in gas meter mode.
Figure 5:
GP30-DEMO MODULE
3.2
Communication Interface
The PICOPROG device is a USB-to-SPI converter box that interfaces all UFC evaluation systems.
With version 3.0, the PICOPROG also supports the USB-to-UART conversion of TDC-GP30. The
PICOPROG is registered by the operating system initially as “PICOPROG v3.0 unprogrammed”. As
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