A simple accurate bridge-transducer interface with continuous autocalibration

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 704-710

  Van Der Goes, Frank M L ^b   Meijer, Gerard C M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bridge circuits; Calibration; Intelligent sensors; Resistance measurement; Sensor interface; Transducers

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CALIBRATION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRIC WIRE; SENSORS; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

AUTOCALIBRATION TECHNIQUE; INTELLIGENT SENSOR; SENSOR INTERFACE;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0031164119     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.585437     Document Type: Article

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