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Modular Microsensorics
In 2001, the BMBF asked the AMA Association to adapt a concept for modular microsystem technology initiated by the VDMA, known as MATCH-X, to micromeasuring systems under its auspices.
The study was started to determine, whether manufactures of measuring systems were already using modular structures in their products, and if so, to what extent. Surprisingly, it turned out that 80% of the modern measuring systems already had a modular design, often by implementing broadband ASICs. Mostly, however, this modularization was company-specific.
In a subsequent step, a typical measuring system was disassembled into function blocks to determine where non-customized interfaces could be defined. This resulted in two interfaces: the PrimSens Interface, which bundles the very different signal levels of the sensor elements into a single standard level, and the Bus-Coupler Interface, which defines the internal, digital measuring-signal transfer to a bus system.
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In June 2004 the conceptual work of the various working groups was concluded and the concept was handed over by the AMA Association to the industry for free use. Meanwhile the first products, in which the AMA recommendations have been implemented, are on the market.
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