
preliminary
preliminary
iC-PVS
LINEAR/OFF-AXIS
BATTERY-BUFFERED ABSOLUTE POSITION HALL SENSOR
Rev A2, Page 18/51
B
[mT]
moving target
target displacement
1.0 to 5.0mm
= 360°e
B
amp
B
dc
B
max
magnetic
flux density
X
[mm]
magnetic period
Figure 11: Magnetic flux density at chip surface (B)
over target displacement (X)
When building magnetic rotary encoders with magnetic
code discs, a full mechanical rotation, referred to as
360
°
m, consists of multiple magnetic periods. On every
magnetic pole pair, one electrical sine period is gener-
ated on the analog output, referred to as 360
°
e. Figure
8 shows an example code disc with 32 magnetic pole
pairs. Here 360
°
e correspond to 11.25
°
m. The wheel
has to turn 11520
°
e for one full mechanical rotation of
360
°
m. The absolute FlexCount
®
feature of iC-PVS
can be utilized to interpret the 32 magnetic periods as
one mechanical singleturn revolution. Excessive period
counts are processed and output as multiturn revolu-
tions. Every PCR (period count per revolution) from 1
to 65536 can be configured.