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MAXQ7667 User’s Guide
SECTION 17: ULTRASONIC DISTANCE MEASUREMENT
MODULE—BURST TRANSMISSION AND ECHO RECEPTION
The MAXQ7667 was developed for ultrasonic time-of-flight distance measurement. To accomplish this task several hardware blocks
were added to the basic MAXQ. These blocks can be divided into two functioning units: burst transmission and echo reception.
Typically, the burst transmission stage sends out an ultrasonic sound wave to a surface, from which the distance is to be measured,
and the echo reception stage listens to the reflected burst frequency (echo). The echo reception stage is synchronized to the burst fre-
quency and only processes the echo signals that are of the same frequency as the burst signal.
The burst transmission stage has the following features:
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The burst frequency signal can be generated using the system clock (SYSCLK) or the phase-locked loop (PLL) oscillator.
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The PLL is programmable and allows any frequency between 18.8kHz and 1.67MHz (with a worst-case resolution of 0.13%).
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Selectable polarity of the output pulses.
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Programmable duty cycle.
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Programmable number of pulses (1 to 255) in a single burst.
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The burst output pin can be set to a three-state mode.
The echo reception stage has the following features:
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The circuit is synchronized with the burst transmission unit to receive echoes at the burst frequency for burst frequencies in the
range of 25kHz to 100kHz.
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Detects echoes down to 10µV
P-P
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Programmable amplification with 23.5dB range.
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16-bit sigma-delta ADC to digitize the echo signal.
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Bandpass filter (BPF) to reduce noise.
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Full-wave detector and lowpass filter (LPF) (with several stages) produce a clean echo envelope.
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FIFO stores up to 8 LPF readings.
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FIFO can be loaded by software, LPF data ready, or a timer.
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Digital comparator with interrupt to indicate when output of the LPF exceeds a programmable threshold.
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Simulated echo signal (derived from burst signal) for testing and debugging.