Signal conditioning circuit for piezoresistive pressure sensors with variable pulse-rate output

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-162

  Vlassis, S ^a   Siskos, S ^a,b,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c School of Thechnology   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

OPERATIONAL FLOATING AMPLIFIERS; PIEZORESISTIVE PRESSURE SENSORS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPICE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033738537     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008398010538     Document Type: Article

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