Incremental sensors are used in a wide range of industrial settings wherever displacement, angle, linear or rotational speed, or other time-based physical quantities are to be measured. A previous white paper from imc introduced the functionality and basic analysis possibilities offered by incremental sensors utilizing a single signal, or track. However, is often of interest to know not only the speed at which something moves, but also its direction of movement. This can be achieved by including a second track with a specific phase alignment to the first track. Resolution is critical in control, and other precision angular applications, such as machine tooling and differential rotational speed measurements. Enhancements of the signal resolution can also be achieved by using a second incremental signal track. The most common technique, of multiplying the two tracks, or using the signals in quadrature, can create a fourfold increase in resolution. If even more resolution is required, there are incremental sensors which generate two analog sinusoidal signals with a 90° offset from one other; analog digitizer processing of these so called SinCos sensors can achieve much higher resolutions than traditional encoders.