The AD771x Series is a family of ADCs that are designed specifically for low frequency, high accuracy industrial transducer applications. Figure 1 shows a block diagram of one of these devices. The analog front end, which in some cases also includes excitation sources for sensors, accepts low level signals that can be amplified by the internal programmable gain amplifier before being applied to a sigma-delta modulator. The pulse stream appearing at the output of this modulator is applied to a digital filter which produces a low-pass filtered, high resolution, serial output.