Maxim 1463 Two-Channel Sensor Signal Processor

Do not bother with anything that Maxim/Dallas "makes". A lot of the stuff they advertise is completely unavailable at almost any price - no samples in any quantity over zero. Either find another vendor (that *really* makes what you would like), or make them yourself. Ther are a lot of distributors that refuse to carry any Maxim stuff, due to the problems of availability.

That must explain their $40/share stock price. They have no cost of goods sold. Our Maxim reps have always been very honest and accurate about lead times on new products. New parts are always scarce, but in my experience they've never failed to deliver.

We requested and got the 1463 evaluation kit, which includes the assembler and a debugger. We're learning now whether the part can handle our control loop itself or not.

--Gene

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Hello Gene

Thank you for the comments so far. Can you please clarify whether the evaluation kit plugs straight into the PC (parallel port?) or whether some additional controller PCB is required ( the Dallas web site has a picture showing a controller but doesn't make clear what this device is)

Also it is not clear to me what the performance of the analogue front end is, I require an offset of around 1 to 2µV/°C as I intend to interface directly to thermocouples, the data sheet seems a little thin in this respect.

I will be ordering an evaluation kit once I get a response from the applications engineers here in the UK in the meanwhile, do you know whether the assembler/debugger is available separately from the evaluation kit?

Regards

Payman

Yes, the parallel port is used as the only connection to the eval board, which has some voltage regulation and additional analog components.

I don't have that information.

I doubt it. There's no simulator, so it's useless without hardware.

--Gene

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Thanks Gene

From what you say it appears that you are not able to run the debugger on your target system and that it will it only run on the evaluation kit. Is that correct?

Payman

The debugger is hosted on your PC, but it needs a part to talk to.

--Gene