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ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS & SENSING
USER GUIDE
SX8724SEVK
Evaluation Kit for SX8724S Data Acquisition System
ACS - Revision 1.0 May 2011
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17.9
LSB Equivalence
Using the defined ADC and PGA set-up, an equivalent input pressure per LSB can be calculated. Using the
typical sensor transfer function, we obtain:
The approximate equivalence between Pressure and altitude is defined as follow:
This implementation has a resolution of 8cm altitude.
Equation 4
Equation 5
Pressure
V
LSB
pressureRange
⋅
sensorVoltageRange
--------------------------------------------------------
63nV 200kPa
⋅
13.04mV
-------------------------------------
0.96Pa
=
=
=
Altitude
100kPa
8620m
≡
0.96Pa 8620m
⋅
100kPa
---------------------------------------
→
0.0079Pa
=
=