Development of a FPGA-based SoC instrument for the characterization of high sensitivity QCM oscillator sensors

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3144-3148

  Moure, María José ^a   Valdês, María Dolores ^a   Rodiz, Pablo ^a   Rodriguez Pardo, Loreto ^a   Fariña, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTORESISTS; PIPELINES; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; QUARTZ; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCES;

ALLAN DEVIATION; ANNUAL CONFERENCE; CO PROCESSORS; DATA FLOWS; DSP APPLICATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; FLOATING POINT IMPLEMENTATION; FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; FREQUENCY NOISES; HARDWARE PLATFORMS; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; LOW COSTS; LOWER LIMIT; MASS RESOLUTION; MASS VARIATIONS; MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; OPTIMAL BALANCE; PIPELINE ARCHITECTURES; QCM SENSORS; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICRO-BALANCE; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REAL-TIME PROCESSING; RECURSIVE FORMULAE; SENSOR RESOLUTION; SPECIFIC HARDWARE; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP; TIME-SHARING; VIRTEX-4;

SENSORS;

EID: 50249173553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2006.347394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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