The document discusses various techniques for interfacing microcontrollers to sensors, including analog interfaces using analog-to-digital converters to read sensor output voltages and convert them to digital values. It provides examples of interfacing microcontrollers to temperature sensors like the LM34 and LM35, whose output voltage varies linearly with temperature, and to ADC0848 and ADC0804 analog-to-digital converters. The document also includes code to read temperature sensor values using an ADC0848 converter and display the results on an 8051 microcontroller's port pins.