Digital Instrumentation for Measurement and Control

A preview of the upcoming book by C.G. Masi.

Projected Contents

Volume 1: Data Acquisition Fundamentals

Preface

Part 1: Data Acquisition Hardware Specifications

1.	What is Data Acquisition, Anyway?
2.	Basic Channel Input Specifications
3.	Accuracy and Precision
4.	Time Quantization and Sampling
5.	Jitter Bugs
6.	Buddy, Do You Have the Time?
7.	Matrix Mixup
8.	The Effective Bits
9.	Specifying protocols: Part 1
10.	Specifying protocols: Part 2

Part 2: Working With Data Acquisition Systems

11.	Alias Smith or Jones
12.	The Magic of Multiple Scans--Part 1
13.	The Magic of Multiple Scans--Part 2
14.	Down and Dirty with PCI
15.	Data Stuffing with PCI

Appendices

A.	IVI Foundation Proposes DAQ Driver Standard
B.	Instrument Networks Grow Up
C.	USB: The External Internal Bus
F.	Working With Custom DAQ Hardware
G.	Buddy, We Have the Time!