Digital Design for Computer Data Acquisition

This book is a digital electronics text focused on 'how to' design, build, operate and adapt data acquisition systems.

Charles D. Spencer (Author)

9780521371995, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 June 1990

372 pages
24.2 x 16.4 x 2.4 cm, 0.675 kg

"...for a course on design of data acquisition systems, this text would provide good laboratory material for a detailed design problem....Serious computer and electronic hobbyists, and those bent on self-instruction, may also find this book very helpful as it contains enough detail to put together a complete 'homegrown' data acquisition system from inexpensive components." Raymond Rusk, Physics in Canada

This book is a digital electronics text focused on 'how to' design, build, operate and adapt data acquisition systems. The book is intended to serve people whose goals include teaching or learning one or more of the following: digital electronics, circuit design for computer expansion slots, software which interacts with outside hardware, the process of computer based data acquisition, and the design, adaptation, construction and testing of measurement systems. The fundamental idea of the book is that parallel I/O ports (available for all popular computers) offer a superior balance of simplicity, low cost, speed, flexibility and adaptability.

Preface
1. Computer measurement
2. Introduction to digital electronics
3. Parallel I/O ports
4. Tutorial on the AD573 ADC
5. Tutorial on the 6264 RAM
6. Tutorial on the Intel 8253 PIT
7. Control/data interface
8. ADC module
9. Comprehensive measurement system
10. Fast voltage measurer
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Data capture & analysis [UNC], Circuits & components [TJFC]