Intelligent Sensor Design Using the Microchip dsPIC.(Books & Kits)
Intelligent Sensor Design Using the Microchip dsPIC, by Creed Huddleston, Newnes imprint of Elsevier, Burlington, MA. 2007. $60. ISBN: 978-0-7506-7755-4. (Includes CD-ROM.)
I looked forward to reviewing this book but, overall, the experience was a disappointment. The author tried to fit too much into one book and the effort seems basic in some areas and overly complicated in others. This book deserves a new title, perhaps "Introduction to the Microchip dsPIC," because sensors do not get as much coverage as the title promises. And the book does not cover "intelligent sensors;" the type that include some "smarts" within the sensor itself. Instead, it explains how to obtain useful information from standard thermocouples, load cells and flow-meters. …
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