Digital and analog reconfiguration techniques for rapid smart sensor system prototyping

Sensor Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1113-1118

  Morales, D P ^a   Garcia A ^a   Olmos, A Martínez ^a   Banqueri, J ^a   Palma, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA); Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA); Sensors dynamic reconfiguration; Smart sensor interface

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CIRCUITRY; ANALOG SIGNALS; DIGITAL CONTROL; DIGITAL PROCESSING; DYNAMIC RE-CONFIGURATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE ANALOG ARRAY (FPAA); FIELD PROGRAMMABLE ANALOG ARRAYS; IEEE 1451.4; PLUG-AND-PLAY; PROCESSING MODULES; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE DEVICES; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BUILDING SIGNAL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL DEVICES; DYNAMIC MODELS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FORCE MEASUREMENT; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL SENSORS; SMART SENSORS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

EID: 77949402392     PISSN: 1546198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/sl.2009.1244     Document Type: Article

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