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Architecting High-Performance Embedded Systems
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Architecting High-Performance Embedded Systems

by Jim Ledin
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
9h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: Sensing the World

This chapter introduces the principles and applications of sensors used in a wide variety of embedded systems. Passive sensors measure attributes of the world such as temperature, pressure, humidity, light intensity, and atmospheric composition. Active sensors use energy-emitting technologies such as radar and lidar to detect objects and measure their position and velocity.

We will examine a broad range of sensor types as well as the communication protocols used for transferring sensor data into a processor. The chapter also discusses the processing an embedded system must perform on raw sensor measurements to provide actionable data for use by a processing algorithm.

After completing this chapter, you will have ...

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