Intelligent Sensor Design Using the Microchip dsPIC™ by Creed Huddleston

We’re admittedly biased since Real-Time by Design’s president wrote this book, but the reviews on Amazon™, at Electronic Design magazine, and at Sensors magazine indicate that we’re not the only ones who think it’s a good introduction to the world of intelligent sensor design if you’re going to use Microchip’s dsPIC™ digital signal controller as your processing engine.

Intelligent Sensor Design is targeted for software and hardware developers who need to quickly understand the foundational concepts needed to create intelligent sensors. To that end, the book offers an introduction to intuitive digital signal processing design, discusses the various ways intelligent sensors can communicate with other components in a system, and offers detailed design examples of three different intelligent sensor applications using the dsPIC™ DSC as the hardware platform.

The book offers a solid overview of the considerations with which designers must wrestle when developing sensors for use in the real world, but it doesn’t pretend to be the definitive work for the important topics of digital signal processing or hard real-time programming.