Digital and Analogue Instrumentation: Testing and Measurement

This book provides a state-of-the art review of modern families of digital instruments. For each family the book covers internal design, use and applications, highlighting their advantages and limitations from a practical application viewpoint.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Enabling technologies


• Chapter 3: Data converters


• Chapter 4: Waveform parameters, multimeters and pulse techniques


• Chapter 5: Fundamentals of oscilloscopes


• Chapter 6: Recent developments on DSO techniques


• Chapter 7: Electronic counters


• Chapter 8: Conventional signal sources and arbitrary waveform generators


• Chapter 9: Spectrum analysis


• Chapter 10: Logic analysers


• Chapter 11: An introduction to instrument buses and VLSI testing


• Chapter 12: Transmission measurements


• Chapter 13: Digital signal processors


• Chapter 14: Sensors


• Chapter 15: Calibration of instruments

About the author

Nihal Kularatna is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. From 1986 to 2000 he developed a research and development base at the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies in Sri Lanka where he was a Principal Research Engineer and subsequently CEO (2000-2001). He has published over 50 papers and is the author of three books. He is a Fellow of the IET.

Product details

• Authors: N. Kularatna, Nihal Kularatna, Nihal (Senior Lecturer Kularatna
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780852969991
• ISBN: 978-0-85296-999-1
• No. of pages: 675
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 1170 g
• Series: Electrical Measurement; Materials, Circuits and Devices; Materials, Circuits and Device; Electrical Measurement
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics