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Implementing Intelligent Sensors Using the Microchip dsPIC® Resources for Developing Intelligent Sensor Applications This file provides additional resources that supplement the Implementing Intelligent Sensors Using the Microchip dsPIC® book. Please note that these resources are offered as an aid to the developer and are only a sampling of the many resources available on the web or in the literature; their inclusion here is not to be considered an endorsement by Elsevier Science & Technology Books.

The following subjects are included:

The companion website for Implementing Intelligent Sensors

Obtaining the Microchip® development tools

Support for the Microchip devices and development tools

Resources for digital signal processing theory

Resources about analog filtering theory

Intelligent sensor resources on the Internet

The Companion Website for Implementing Intelligent Sensors The companion website for the book, www.intelligentsensordesign.com, contains complete source code for all of the applications in the book, additional examples illustrating difficult topics, links to the latest insights into the field of intelligent sensors, and more. If you have a question while reading the book, the companion site is the first place to check for additional information that may provide the answer that you seek. You can contact the author at creedh@intelligentsensordesign.com.

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Obtaining the Microchip Development Tools All of the Microchip development tools described in the book are available for download or purchase from Microchip's website www.microchip.com, and many of the tools are free. Please note that the links provided here may change when Microchip updates its website (which happens periodically).

The Microchip development tools used in the book include the

MPLAB® IDE integrated development environment v7.40 (part #SW007002)

MPLAB® ICD 2 in-circuit debugger (part #DV164005)

C30 ANSI C compiler, v2.03 (part #SW006012)

dsPICDEM™ 1.1 demonstration board (part #DM300014)

Digital Filter Design Software (part #DM300001)

dsPICworks™ Signal Analysis and Visual DSP Design Software (part #SW300021)

Note that the MPLAB IDE software and the dsPICworks Signal Analysis and Visual DSP Design Software are free. A Student Version of the C30 C compiler that has minimal restrictions is also available for free, or the full version can be purchased. Similarly, a Digital Filter Design Lite version is available for significantly reduced cost, or the full version can be purchased. In the book, we use the full versions of both the C30 compiler and the Digital Filter Design software, but the free and reduced-cost versions should work as well for these applications. Although the MPLAB ICD 2 debugger and the dsPICDEM 1.1 demonstration board must be purchased from Microchip or from one of its distributors, they make system prototyping significantly easier and are well worth the expense.

To purchase an item, simply click on the blue "Buy It Now" link beside the item name on the pages referenced above. For those items that are available for free, scroll down the associated page to the links for downloading.

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Support for the Microchip Devices and Development Tools Documentation for the Microchip development tools is available on-line at the pages referenced in the section Obtaining the Microchip Development Tools. Additional support is available through the user forums hosted on the Microchip website. Not only are the forums monitored by Microchip support personnel, but the forums are actively employed by users around the world to solve problems in a timely manner.

Perhaps the best source of support for all of Microchip's products is the company's annual MASTERs conferences, a several day event held at multiple locations around the world. At the conferences, attendees can take in-depth classes with experts on specific Microchip technologies, devices, and tools. As an added benefit, during the conference attendees can purchase development tools for as much as half off the normal price.

In 2006, Microchip opened a number of Regional Training Centers around the globe in which the company offers seminars and other training events. Another outstanding source of information and training are Microchip's web seminars, which cover a variety of topics in-depth and which can be accessed 24 hours a day at no charge.

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Resources for Digital Signal Processing Theory There are a number of excellent texts available from which to learn digital signal processing theory and applications. Three of the author's favorite books are Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists by Steven Smith,

Understanding Digital Signal Processing (2nd edition) by Richard G. Lyons, and

Discrete-Time Signal Processing (2nd edition) by Alan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schafer, and John R. Buck.

The books by Smith and by Lyons are excellent texts for either self-study or the classroom, with clear examples that allow readers new to the subject to get up to speed quickly. The Oppenheim, Schafer, and Buck text, which updates the venerable Digital Signal Processing by Oppenheim and Schafer, is an extremely rigorous study of the subject that assumes the reader is quite comfortable with advanced mathematical concepts and applications. Although an outstanding reference, because of its rigor, Discrete-Time Signal Processing is particularly well-suited to a classroom setting.

Readers will find the dsPICWorks software to be a useful companion in the study of any of these books, since the software allows the user to try different DSP operations and view the resulting system response.

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Resources for Analog Filtering Theory Readers needing an introduction to or a refresher on the subject of analog filtering will find the book Analog and Digital Filter Design by Steve Winder to be extremely helpful. Unlike many books on the subject, this text does not start by diving into mathematically complex filtering topics, choosing instead to focus on the rapid development of working filters and providing the relevant derivations in the appendix This approach is frequently less intimidating to those new to the subject while still providing the information more advanced readers can use to better understand the operation of the filters.

Another excellent resource for designing analog filters is Microchip's free FilterLab® Filter Design Software, a software tool that allows the user to easily design active filter circuits and to simulate their expected frequency response.

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Intelligent Sensor Resources On the Internet There are a wide variety of resources available on the Internet that offer information on the intelligent sensor market space and advances in intelligent sensor technology. A few (a very few) of these resources are

Market Space Harbor Research, Inc. - consulting and research service for the Pervasive Internet environment

M2M magazine - a look at the machine-to-machine marketplace

Technology Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Sensor Machines program at Texas A&M University

ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing

Sensors magazine - the science, technology, and application of sensors

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dsPIC, MPLAB, Microchip, dsPICDEM, and dsPICworks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microchip Technology, Inc.

Implementing Intelligent Sensors Using the Microchip dsPIC® is an independent book and is not affiliated with, nor has it been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microchip. Copyright © 2006 Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved.