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University of Colorado Boulder

Sensors and Sensor Circuit Design

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5340, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. After taking this course, you will be able to: ● Understand how to specify the proper thermal, flow, or rotary sensor for taking real-time process data. ● Implement thermal sensors into an embedded system in both hardware and software. ● Add the sensor and sensor interface into a microprocessor based development kit. ● Create hardware and firmware to process sensor signals and feed data to a microprocessor for further evaluation. ● Study sensor signal noise and apply proper hardware techniques to reduce it to acceptable levels. This course includes specific hardware and software requirements. Please review the FAQ below for complete details.

Status: Embedded Systems
Status: Engineering, Scientific, and Technical Instruments
AdvancedCourse26 hours

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CG

5.0Reviewed Jul 2, 2019

The PSoC is a great technology that I didn't know before. I'm going to use it at home in my personal projects and at work as quick prototyping and testing.

EV

4.0Reviewed Apr 24, 2020

This course is very good. Concise, very informative, and provides a lot of useful material. I would like to include more on filtering, both software and hardware.

RV

5.0Reviewed Aug 23, 2020

this coursera is very good app and both of learn project work and other in this app and all learning vedio very important and easy to learn

RP

4.0Reviewed Jun 13, 2020

It helps me to know about various types of sensors and its working.But the problem is it includes some tough questions in quiz that cant digest.

HH

4.0Reviewed Jun 27, 2025

great course . The only problem is that this kind of microcontroller isnt available and cant be optained easily so that was a minor setback to me when i started with this course

MC

5.0Reviewed Feb 20, 2019

This course is a great overview of thermal and flow sensors and how to implement them as well as select them. It's also a great course in using the Cypress PSoC.

AG

5.0Reviewed Aug 18, 2019

A great way to review concepts about operational amplifiers and dive into sensor circuit design with an interesting lab/project

RS

5.0Reviewed Mar 31, 2020

It was awesome experience for me thank you so much to all teacher which are present in this course for helping me.

AI

5.0Reviewed Nov 16, 2025

great for starting in sensors study field. I learn a lot and understand some principles about electrical work .

IB

5.0Reviewed Jul 22, 2020

Great course, Excellent teacher, and overall Fantastic experience. Thankyou University of Colorado Boulder.

BV

5.0Reviewed May 14, 2021

It was a wonderful experience to know practicalities of various sensors and its interfacing with PSoC platform !!!

TN

5.0Reviewed Mar 29, 2020

It was amzing experience about how the course was so professionally held .It was amzing i have learnt different things right from practical to theory it absolutely brilliant

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