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Sensors, conditioners and acquisition devices

Course title: Sensors, conditioners and acquisition devices

Code: FEIT05Z026

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+0+2+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Electronics 1 or Electronics

Course goals/Competences: Practical knowledge of various sensors and their principles. Evaluation of conditioner performances and understanding catalogue data. Design of simple conditioners and intelligent sensors. Understanding of standards.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Introduction to sensor-based systems and their characteristics, microelectronic sensors; resistance based sensors and conditioners, capacitance and inductance based sensors and conditioners; electromagnetic compatibility and noise; active sensors; special sensor amplifiers and high performance amplifiers; digital intelligent sensors; semiconductor based sensors; A/D converters, sensor systems and acquisition devices, standards; PLC based acquisition example

Literature:

Literature

Compulsory literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Ramon P. Areny

Sensors and signal conditioning

John Wiley and Sons

2001

Further literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

D. H. Sheingold

Transducer Interfacing Handbook

Analog Devices

1980

2

Randy Frank

Understanding Smart Sensors

Arcteh

2000

3

Various authors

Catalogs, Application notes

Internet pages

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