Embedding Sensors and Motors

Module 1: Sensors and Sensor Circuit Design

• Use the core features of the Cypress PSOC development kit
• Choose the right temperature sensor, rotary sensor and amplifier for an application
• Interface sensors, LCD, and ADC to the PSOC development kit

Module 2: Motors and Motor Control Circuits

• Understand how to specify the proper AC or DC motor for a machine design
• Integrate the motor to a machine, based on analysis of motor equations for voltage, current, torque and speed
• Implement the motor and accompanying rotary sensor into a motor control circuit in both hardware and software
• Create hardware and firmware to process motor feedback data to a microprocessor for further evaluation

Module 3: Pressure, Force, Motion, and Humidity Sensors

• Choose the right pressure, force, strain, position, motion, acceleration, occupancy, and humidity sensor for an application
• Design these sensors into an embedded circuit

Module 4: Sensor Manufacturing and Process Control

• Understand how sensor manufacturers characterize and calibrate their sensors
• Tune a PID control loop and access the PID control function of the Cypress PSoC development kit for a motor control application
• Understand manufacturing methods used to build electro-mechanical and micro-machined sensors