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                     Thermocouple And Conditioning Circuits Enable Accurate Temperature Monitoring Over Wide Range Focus: Accurate temperature measurement over a wide range is valued in industrial thermal management 
and hazardous environmental monitoring. To achieve precise calculations over the entire 
temperature range, both the sensor and the signal conditioning circuit must be meticulously 
adapted and adjusted. This article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of thermocouples and 
the common techniques for mitigating their sources of error. The article then discusses the 
operation and performance capabilities of a highly integrated, sensor conditioning IC, the 
MCP9600, which converts a thermocouple’s EMF to a temperature reading in Celsius.  
 What you’ll learn: 	- How to achieve accurate temperature measurement over wide temperature ranges using thermocouples
 	- How to correct the nonlinearities of thermocouples to obtain more accurate temperature readings
 	- How to simplify signal conditioning for thermocouples by using an integrated thermocouple 
conditioning IC 
  
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 Author & Publication: Robin Yang, Microchip Technology, Chandler, Ariz., How2Power Today, Oct 16 2017  
                     
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