REDUCED CONTROLLER LOADING AND PERIPHERAL USAGE FOR DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT DEVICE EXCITATION

In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a system includes a main control device, including one or more of: a serial peripheral interface, a direct memory access, a central processing unit, a timing peripheral module, and/or a variable peripheral module, configured to output one or more excitation signals to a displacement measuring device, and an intermediate control module operatively connected between the main control device and the displacement measuring device configured to control communication of the one or more control signals from the main control device to the displacement measuring device based at least in part on a timing control signal from the timing peripheral module.