FPGA Implementation of Steinhart–Hart Equation for Accurate Thermistor Linearization

This paper presents fixed point operation-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) implementation of Steinhart–Hart Equation (SHHE) for thermistor linearization. FPGA implementation issues of SHHE are presented and their solutions are proposed and experimentally validated in a LabVIEWTM environment. Experimental temperature calibration, performed using a M/S Fluke drywell calibrator, revealed a lowest nonlinearity of 0.11% for an industrial grade thermistor in the input temperature range from −20 °C to 120 °C. Therefore, the main contribution of this work is to demonstrate the lowest nonlinearity for a wider temperature range. This work is expected to be very useful to instrumentation engineers as it employs a time-tested technique, for thermistor linearization in FPGA, leading to the lowest nonlinearity for a larger input temperature range.

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