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piezo-electric sensors (for sensing stress, strain etc), touch sensors and so on. As per the
requirements of the applications, standard sensors for these can be easily sought out.
3.2 | Analog to Digital Converters
All sensors give an analog voltage proportional to the physical quantity sensed—to
convert it to a digital number which an MCU can use, an Analog to Digital Converter
(ADC) is used. Many MCUs have ADCs inside the chip (PIC, ARM, AVR, etc.), while
there are MCUs like 8051 where an external ADC might be needed. In this section, we
review some important aspects of ADCs.
3.2.1 | ADC Interfacing *
ADCs [Analog-to-Digital ...