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iC-TW29
26-BIT ENCODER PROCESSOR
WITH INTERPOLATION AND BiSS INTERFACE
Rev C1, Page 22/28
The basic electrical connections for an incremental
hosted application using a single iC-TW29 are shown
in Figure 17. Multiple iC-TW29s can also be bussed or
chained together using the same SPI port on the host
processor.
Differential
RS422
ABZ Outputs
120
Ω
120
Ω
120
Ω
VREF
VC
100
nF
1
µ
F
AVDD
AVSS
3.3V
SIN+
SIN–
COS+
COS–
Sensor
iC-TW29
xSS
SCLK
SI
SO
xCALIB
100
nF
1
µ
F
IOVDD
3.3V
IOVSS
A+
A–
B+
B–
Z+
Z–
1
µ
F
DVDD
DVSS
3.3V
BISSEN
ZERO+
ZERO–
xRST
xIRQ
GPIO
RESERVED
RESERVED
Host
µ
P
OUTx
IRQx
xCS
SCLK
MO
MI
3.3V
Figure 17: Typical Electrical Connections For Hosted Application
Power and Ground
The iC-TW29 requires a high quality ground and
clean 3.3 V power supplies. There are three sepa-
rate power/ground pin pairs, one each for the analog
(AVDD/AVSS), digital (DVDD/DVSS), and I/O (IOVD-
D/IOVSS) circuitry.
In most cases, it is sufficient to connect all three power
pins to the same low-impedance power source, prefer-
ably an on-board voltage regulator. Likewise, the three
ground pins can usually be connected to the same solid
ground plane on the PC board. If necessary, separate
voltage regulators can be used to power each section
to provide enhanced noise immunity. In all cases, each
power pin should have a dedicated 1
µ
F decoupling
capacitor placed as close to the iC-TW29 as possible.
Reference Outputs
The reference outputs VREF and VC must each be
decoupled to ground with separate 100 nF capacitors
placed as close to the iC-TW29 as possible. VC should
not be used to bias external circuitry or the sin/cos or
ZERO inputs with single-ended sensors.
xCALIB Input
The active-low xCALIB input is used to activate the au-
to-calibration feature of the iC-TW29. A push-button
and pull-up resistor can be connected to this input as
shown for easy manual calibration. xCALIB can also
be controlled by a host processor output, if desired.
If push-button calibration is not required, xCALIB should
be connected to 3.3 V to avoid spurious calibration.
SIN and COS Inputs
The iC-TW29 connects directly to magnetic (such as
iC-SM2L or iC-SM5L) and optical (such as iC-LSHB or
iC-PT...H series) sensors providing differential sin/cos
outputs, as shown in Figure 18 and Figure 19.