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Chipset for energy meters

27 May 2009 Power Electronics / Power Management

Maxim has introduced a new chipset, combining the MAXQ3108 and DS8102, that aims to reduce the bill of materials cost of a polyphase energy meter. Together, the two devices replace three high-cost current transformers with three low-cost shunts to save both cost and space.

The DS8102 contains two high-precision second-order delta-sigma modulators with programmable gains up to 32x. The modulators’ outputs are encoded into a single bit stream to minimise the isolation and data-coupling cost. The data processing is carried out in the MAXQ3108, a dual-core microcontroller that accepts three DS8102 output bit streams, then decodes and decimates that data to produce raw ADC samples across a wide dynamic range. The ADC samples are fed into the MAXQ3108’s integrated digital signal processor that computes the power, energy, power factors and RMS voltage and current parameters required for a multifunction electricity meter.

The MAXQ3108’s DSP is also programmable, making the chipset suitable for a wide variety of industrial data acquisition applications where isolation between the physical signals and the data acquisition instrument is required. Reference designs are available for assistance.

A three-phase meter uses three DS8102s and one MAXQ3108. Each DS8102 floats on the respective phase that it is measuring. A DS8102 converts the voltage and current inputs into a high-frequency digital bit stream that is then coupled to the MAXQ3108 through a low-cost capacitor. The MAXQ3108 is DC isolated from the three DS8102s, but AC coupled to them to accept the digital data bit streams from each. With each DS8102 isolated from the other phases and from the MAXQ3108, each phase can use a shunt resistor for its current sensing.

For more information contact Larry Gordon, CST Electronics, +27 (0)11 608 0070, [email protected], www,cstelectronics.co.za



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