Patent ID: 7386412

Claim:
A system for integrating a sensor, transducers, and a digital processor comprising: a sensor that is responsive to changes in input forces, temperature, or other physical quantity; one or more transducers integrated with said sensor to convert the sensor responses to analog electrical signals; conductors carrying said analog electrical signals from said transducers to a digital signal processor, said digital signal processor converting said analog electrical signals to digital signals, said transducers being connected to and integrated with the digital signal processor; a digital bus circuit for receiving said digital signals; and means included with said digital signal processor for placing data from said sensor onto said digital bus circuit with coded identification of the sensor or transducer supplying the data or the time the data was collected, said digital signal processor including means for placing data from the analog electrical signal of said sensor onto said bus circuit after modification of the digital data for zero offset by addition or subtraction of an input or computed offset of zero or more.