Summary

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.

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.

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.

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.

Choice Review

Based on the earlier book by Kularatna (Univ. of Aukland, New Zealand), Modern Electronic Test and Measuring Instruments (1996), this volume reviews the current state of the art and extends the range of instrumentation to cover digital instrumentation families. The 15 chapters include enabling technologies; data converters; waveform parameters, multimeters and pulse techniques; fundamentals of oscilloscopes; recent developments on digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) techniques; electronic counters; conventional signal sources and arbitrary waveform generators; spectrum analysis; logic analyzers; an introduction to instrument buses and very large scale integration (VLSI) testing; transmission measurements; digital signal processors; sensors; and calibration of instruments. Each chapter concludes with pertinent subject references for further detailed study. As the 11th volume in this IEE series on measurement and instrumentation, this work is especially useful to professional electronic and electrical engineers, particularly those working on design, testing, and use of modern electronic instrumentation. A useful resource for engineering libraries serving undergraduate and graduate students. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. I. L. Kosow emeritus, City University of New York