The art of directly interfacing sensors to microcontrollers

F Reverter - Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2012 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the direct connection of sensors to microcontrollers without using any
analogue circuit (such as an amplifier or analogue-to-digital converter) in the signal path …

A microcontroller-based interface circuit for three-wire connected resistive sensors

F Reverter - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes and experimentally characterizes a novel microcontroller-based
interface circuit to read three-wire connected resistive sensors, which are quite common in …

[HTML][HTML] Two proposals to simplify resistive sensor readout based on resistance-to-time-to-digital conversion

JA Hidalgo-López, J Castellanos-Ramos - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Direct Interface Circuits (DICs) are simple circuits used in readouts for all types of
sensors. For resistive sensors, all DICs perform a resistance-to-time-to-digital conversion …

Interfacing differential capacitive sensors to microcontrollers: A direct approach

F Reverter, Ò Casas - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is a continuation of a previous work with regard to the direct connection of
differential sensors to microcontrollers without using intermediate electronics between them …

Evaluation of new digital signal conditioning techniques for resistive sensors in some practically relevant scenarios

K Elangovan, AC Sreekantan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resistive sensors, with wide-span of operation, are used in a number of industrial scenarios.
In some of these cases, such resistive sensors may need to be located in a remote …

[HTML][HTML] Direct interface circuits for resistive sensors affected by lead wire resistances

JA Hidalgo-López - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
This article proposes two novel circuits for the digital readout of resistive sensors with
parasitic series resistances caused by the lead wire needed to connect remote sensors …

[HTML][HTML] Power consumption analysis of operating systems for wireless sensor networks

R Lajara, J Pelegrí-Sebastiá, JJP Solano - Sensors, 2010 - mdpi.com
In this paper four wireless sensor network operating systems are compared in terms of
power consumption. The analysis takes into account the most common operating systems …

Direct interface circuit for capacitive humidity sensors

F Reverter, O Casas - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper proposes and analyses a direct interface circuit for capacitive humidity sensors.
Such a circuit relies on directly connecting the sensor to a microcontroller without using …

A measurement method for capacitive sensors based on a versatile direct sensor-to-microcontroller interface circuit

Z Czaja - Measurement, 2020 - Elsevier
In the paper, there is presented a new time-domain measurement method for determining
the capacitance values of capacitive sensors, dedicated, among others, to capacitive relative …

A direct approach for interfacing four-wire resistive sensors to microcontrollers

F Reverter - Measurement Science and Technology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In the field of direct sensor-to-microcontroller interface circuits, a novel proposal for four-wire
connected resistive sensors is suggested and experimentally tested herein. The circuit relies …