Promotes durability and lifespan of industrial equipment

Analog Devices (ADI, Korea) has launched a highly integrated polyphase analog front end (AFE) for power quality analysis that improves the durability and lifespan of industrial equipment and significantly reduces design time and cost compared to custom solutions.

Implementing highly accurate and high-performance power quality monitoring requires a custom development process that can be costly and time-consuming. The ADE9000 AFE is an off-the-shelf solution featuring built-in power quality algorithms and a high-performance ADC integrated into a single device.

This integrated solution simplifies complex algorithm programming, reduces costs and component count, and accelerates time to market, while achieving high accuracy and enabling EN61000-4 Class S compliance for power quality. Equipment used in environments such as factories, hospitals, and commercial buildings is often vulnerable to power supply disruptions and fluctuations, resulting in power outages, premature failures, and long-term damage.

In most cases, contamination on power supplies is not discovered until after expensive equipment has been damaged. The ADE9000 AFE enables designers of power quality monitoring solutions, particularly three-phase power analyzers, to measure and analyze contamination, preventing outages and long-term damage.

The ADE9000 AFE integrates seven high-performance ADCs, a high-end reference, a multi-purpose digital signal processing (DSP) core, and proprietary algorithms into a single, convenient device. ADCs and references that provide low drift over a wide range of temperatures and the highest accuracy over the widest dynamic range enable high accuracy.

Additionally, pre-programmed, proprietary power quality software provides real-time monitoring and harmonic analysis, including magnitude and phase information. This allows for timely and cost-effective corrective action when necessary. Power analyzer designers who do not require the exceptional power quality performance of the ADE9000 can use the ADE9078 integrated power meter AFE for multiphase demand and supply analysis applications.