Hello, In my next uC design I need to check periodically battery and uC temperature and battery and power-supply voltage. I do not have a native I2C nor 1Wire on the uC wherever CAN or SPI or some IOs are available. What I prefer would be a kind of simple 2wire interface to some small and handy sensors. Some recommendations ? Are there some don't use sensors? Thx, theAdib. ---
temperature / voltage sensor recomendation?
Started by ●December 13, 2006
Reply by ●December 14, 20062006-12-14
Adib Taraben wrote:> Hello, > > In my next uC design I need to check periodically battery and uC > temperature and battery and power-supply voltage. > > I do not have a native I2C nor 1Wire on the uC wherever CAN or SPI or > some IOs are available. > What I prefer would be a kind of simple 2wire interface to some small > and handy sensors. > > Some recommendations ? Are there some don't use sensors?You can find ADC that also include temperature sensors. I know ADI makes a few. But I have found that external ADCs tend to be a bit expensive compared to the MCU, especially when they contain a temperature sensor. I suggest that you go with an MCU that has an internal temp sensor and ADC. The ADuCxxxx family of parts are specifically designed to have good ADC at a reasonable price. The low end devices are 8051 powered and the higher end devices contain an ARM7 core.