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TDC1000-C2000EVM: Application and range

Part Number: TDC1000-C2000EVM
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TDC1000

Hi Team,

Our customer is trying to find an ultrasonic pulser and receiver for their transducers (~3 MHz) and found TDC1000-C2000EVM that has similar functions.

This question arises:
1) They saw the example case is a 1 MHz ultrasonic in water, wondering if they could use it in their case (~3 MHz in mineral oil) since they noticed that the band of the chip is actually around 8 MHz;
2) Can they use this board as something like a pulser and receiver switch or do you have any products for a recommendation. What they want to achieve is first using ultrasonic transducer to transmitting a pulse cycle for maybe 5 cycles (~1.7 us) and then change to receiving mode for ~50 us and then repeat this process. 

Please let me know if you have any questions to the customer.

Thanks,

Jonathan

  • Hey Jonathan, 

    One of our Apps engineers is looking into this meanwhile can you look into this FAQ for help here 

    https://e2e.ti.com/support/sensors/f/1023/t/724028 

    Meanwhile, do we know what is the resolution requirement for 1.7uS pulse ? 

  • Hi Jonathan,

    If I understand the requirements correctly, I believe the TDC1000 will work for this. Customers have had success with using 1-3MHz transducers in various liquid-coupled applications in the past. The intended use case is ultrasonic time of flight (ToF). The TDC1000 can transmit anywhere from 1 to 31 TX pulses and be programmed to receive for up to 100ms reliably, generating up to 5 digital STOP signals based on the received echo. The measurement terminates once the allocated number of STOP pulses are generated, and if the set number of STOP signals is not reached by the desired time, the user can customize the measurement timeout. 

    This app note goes into more detail: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snaa270/snaa270.pdf

    Regards,

    Gabriel