Why Observe International Product Safety Requirements?

In addition to making an electronic product more attractive from a marketing point of view, knowledge of and conformity with various national and international product safety regulations are legal requirements for doing business in many industrialized countries. There are five basic reasons why electrical or electronic equipment manufacturers should be familiar with and observe international product safety regulations when designing equipment: temperature based on general pre-characterization data. A sensor calibration method using this model is described where the number of required stimuli and temperature levels is minimized. The measurements are made at the output of a complete module containing the sensor and conditioning electronics thus taking all system errors into account. A programmable signal conditioning amplifier stores the computed calibration data and uses it to eliminate initial errors.