Surprisingly, with all of the system technology that Microchip Technology offers, it never had an instrumentation amplifier. With the introduction of the MCP6N11 instrumentation amplifier, that has changed.

The design uses Microchip’s mCal technology, an on-chip calibration circuit that enables low initial offset voltage and a means to control offset drift. This results in higher accuracy across time and temperature. The amplifier delivers a gain-bandwidth product of 500 kHz.

For low power applications, the MCP6N11 uses low-power CMOS process technology and has a hardware shutdown pin for even greater power savings. Operation at  1.8V allows two 1.5V batteries to be drained beyond typical use, and the amplifier’s rail-to-rail input and output operation allows full-range use, even in low-supply conditions.

The amplifier targets signal conditioning for sensors and instrumentation applications in the consumer, industrial and medical markets.

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