Microcontroller-Based Temperature Monitoring and Control

Prof Dogan Ibrahim graduated from the University of Salford with First Class Honours in Electronic Engineering. He then completed an MSc course in Automatic Control Engineering at the University of Manchester, and PhD in Digital Signal Processing at the City University in London. Prof Ibrahim worked at several companies before returning to the academic life. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of Computer Information Systems at the Near East University. Prof Ibrahim is a Fellow of the IET, and a Chartered Electrical Engineer. His interests are in the fields of microcontroller based automatic control, digital signal processing, and computer aided design.Dogan Ibrahim has been Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Near East University, Cyprus, lecturer at South Bank University, London, Principal Research Engineer at GEC Hirst Research Centre, and is now a hardware and software systems consultant to London's Traffic Control Systems Unit.

• Preface; Microcomputer systems; Temperature and its measurement; Thermocouple temperature sensors; RTD temperature sensors; Thermistor temperature sensors; Integrated circuit temperature sensors; Digital control systems and the z-transform; Stability; Case study - Temperature control project; Appendix A - Platinum RTD sensor resistances; Appendix B - ASCII code; Appendix C - FED C Compiler library functions; Glossary; Index