Synopses & Reviews
A substantial update of his earlier book "Modern Electronic Test and Measuring Instruments" (IEE, 1996), the author provides a state-of-the art review of modern families of digital instruments. For each family he covers internal design, use and applications, highlighting their advantages and limitations from a practical application viewpoint. New enabling semiconductor technology including data converters, signal processors and modern sensors offers new capabilities to instrument designers and the book treats new digital instrument families such as DSOs, Arbitrary Function Generators, FFT analysers and many other common systems used by the test engineers, designers and research scientists.
Synopsis
To obtain the full value from instrumentation, users require familiarity with a number of basic concepts and an understanding of how those building blocks relate to one another. In this book, Nihal Kularatna provides an introduction to the main families of instruments for students and professionals who have to carry out practical work in electronics and measurement. For each family he covers internal design, use and applications, highlighting their advantages and limitations from a practical application viewpoint.
Written in a simple, lucid and readable style, the book does not assume detailed knowledge but will give the reader an appropriate understanding of how to use instrumentation validly in its defined context. The book reviews the state-of-the art and extends the range of instruments to encompass digital families. The author also examines conventional and arbitrary waveform generators, spectrum analysis, logic analysers, instrument buses and VLSI testing, DSL/SDH/PDH and general transmission measurements, DSPs and the latest sensors.
This book will be of interest to professional electrical and electronic engineers and students, especially those working on design and test, but any who make use of instruments and instrumentation systems.
Table of Contents
1: Introduction 2: Enabling Technologies 3: Data Converters 4: Waveform Parameters, Multimeters and Pulse Techniques 5: Fundamentals of Oscilloscopes 6: Recent Developments on DS0 Techniques 7: Electronic counters 8: Conventional Signal Sources and Arbitrary Waveform Generators 9: Spectrum Analysis 10: Logic Analyzers 11: An Introduction to Instrument Buses and VLSI Testing 12: Transmission Measurements 13: Digital Signal Processors 14: Sensors 15: Calibration of Instruments Glossary Index