June
2005, Issue 179
Accurate
Capacitance Meter
Cypress
PSoC High Integration Challenge 2004 Contest Winner
by
Alexander Popov, Jordan Popov, and Peter Popov
LCD
& UART
The
LCD module is configured at port 2 to provide an output
for the measured capacitance. Both instantaneous and
running average values are displayed.
A
UART module is configured at P1[7] (RX) and P2[7] (TX)
to output measurements and status information. It also
accepts simple commands for adjusting the device’s parameters.
