An I2C Network Protocol for Environmental Monitoring (,pdf)
Circuit, or I2C bus specification,. speed integrated circuits with critical operating param-. was originally developed by Philips Semiconductors for. eters and must provide extremely reliable service with. the transfer of data between ICs at the PCB level. The. zero down time. To maintain...
Fans With Integrated Control and Monitoring: Intelligent Equipment Cooling - the Right Dose of Air (.pdf)
electronics required for this purpose are space. savingly installed together with the power circuit and logic circuit of the drive on a PCB in the fan. hub. A temperature sensor provides it with the required thermal information. This NTC sensor can. be attached either directly to the fan hub...
Designing with the MCP3901 Dual Channel Analog-to-Digital Converters (.pdf)
The central goal of this application note is to supply support material for a new MCP3901 design. Starting with PCB layout techniques, getting the best performance out of this device will be given for typical applications through proper analog and digital grounding. Designing with the MCP3901 Dual...
Multi-Tasking on the PIC16F877 with the Salvo RTOS
memory is severely limited. The application runs on a prototype PCB that monitors temperature, accepts user input and displays important temperature information. Multi-Tasking on the PIC16F877 with the Salvo RTOS M. AN777. Multi-Tasking on the PIC16F877 with the SalvoTM RTOS. SYSTEM...
Switching Power Supply Design with the PIC16F785
of complex and custom features required by today's electronic systems. However, even with all of the microcontroller's strengths, adding a microcontroller to a SMPS design still adds one or more devices to an already crowded PCB. That is, it used to add additional devices; the new PIC16F785 actually...
Interfacing a TC1047A Analog Output Temperature Sensor to a PICmicro(R) Microcontroller
sensors are especially suited for embedded systems due to their linear output. This application note will discuss system integration, firmware implementation and PCB layout techniques for using the TC1047A in an embedded system. The firmware required to interface the TC1047A to a microcontroller...
Interfacing a TC1047A Analog Output Temperature Sensor to a PICmicro(R) Microcontroller
sensors are especially suited for embedded systems due to their linear output. This application note will discuss system integration, firmware implementation and PCB layout techniques for using the TC1047A in an embedded system. The firmware required to interface the TC1047A to a microcontroller...
Interfacing the TC77 Thermal Sensor to a PICmicro(R) Microcontroller
way to interface to a microcontroller. This application note will discuss system integration, firmware implementation and PCB layout techniques for the TC77 in an embedded system. Microchip has developed a hardware platform called the PICkitTM 1 FLASH Starter Kit, allowing the designer to quickly...