A Universal micro-sensor interface chip with network communication bus and highly programmable sensor readout

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages II246-II249

  Zhang, Jichun ^a   Zhang, Kun ^a   Wang, Zhigang ^a   Mason, Andrew ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BUSBARS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

UNIVERSAL MICRO SENSOR INTERFACE (UMSI);

MICROELECTRONICS;

EID: 0036976574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2002.1186844     Document Type: Article

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