Sensors are used in a variety of consumer and industrial markets from cell phones and tablets to precision detection, distance measurement, identification/image processing and process instrumentation ...

Also known as “smart everything,” the Internet of Things (IoT) is grabbing headlines across the industry. As any great new technology, it comes wrapped in shiny paper that touts it as the solution for ...

Jon Gabay, aka Dr. Gizmology, continues his do-it-yourself series. Find previous parts of this series here and here. User interfaces and systems that distribute data acquisition and control can take ...

Interfacing sensors to measurement equipment, whether a microcontroller ADC input or a high-end data-acquisition system, can cause headaches, particularly when you must use an unusual or unfamiliar ...

Lying at designers' fingertips is an ever-widening range of programmable-gain amplifiers (PGAs) to handle the interface between real-world analog outputs of sensors/transducers in data-acquisition ...