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Robert F. Coughlin	Write for Electronic Design
Robert F. Coughlin is a professor emeritus at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. He received a BSEE from Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
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February 28, 2008 [Ideas For Design]
Interfacing Linear Sensors To An ADC Requires Only Basic Math
Adding “intelligence” to measurement systems has become commonplace because 8-bit microcontrollers are inexpensive and widely available, and they can be programmed in many of today’s popular higher-level languages (e.g., C and Basic). Often, the main challenge is signal- conditioning the sensor’s output into a signal-ended voltage that can fully exploit the input span of the microcontroller’s analog-to-digital converter (ADC). By using basic math and a...