PCB Thermal Mapping using Embedded Passive Sensors

This repository contains supplementary material for the thesis titled "PCB Thermal Mapping using Embedded Passive Sensors".

What's Included

• Altium Designer PCB project and Gerber files
• STM32CubeIDE project for the onboard microcontroller
• Python code used to reconstruct PCB thermal maps, and helper scripts
• Experimental data necessary for the preceding code

Associated Publication

D. D. Plessas, A. Tsiougkos and V. F. Pavlidis, "Embedded Planar Copper RTD Array for Accurate PCB Thermal Mapping," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 4755-4767, Feb. 2026, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2025.3643305.

Code Ocean

The aforementioned article includes code hosted on Code Ocean, a computational reproducibility platform that allows users to view, modify, run, and download code included with IEEE Xplore articles. NOTE: A Code Ocean user account is required to access functionality in the capsule above.