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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1993
Richard T Tarrant, Richardson, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus (10) for intelligent programmable sensing using elements mounted on a silicon base comprise a silicon sensor transducer (12) and a configurable analog signal conditioner (16). A configurable memory (18) is part of signal conditioner (16) and stores conditioning instructions to direct configurable analog signal conditioner operations. A configurable memory (24) is part of configurable analog-to-digital converter (24) and stores converting instruction to direct configurable analog-to-digital converter operation. Digital signal processor (28) processes digitized signals (26) from configurable analog-to-digital converter (24). A program memory (30) stores program instructions for processor (28) to generate results (32). Configuration and results bus (34) directs communications within the sensor (10) and through communications interface (36). Communications interface (36) interfaces to system communications bus (38) to interconnect other intelligent programmable sensors (40,42) and supervisor monitor/control computer (44) which process results/reconfiguration memories (18,24,30).