New ADC with piecewise linear characteristic: case study - implementation of a smart humidity sensor

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1154-1166

  Bucci, Giovanni ^a,b   Faccio, Marco ^a,b   Landi, Carmine ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

INTELLIGENT SENSORS; PIECEWISE LINEAR APPROXIMATION; SENSOR LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUE; SMART HUMIDITY SENSOR;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 0034468169     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.893250     Document Type: Article

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