Modern Electronic Test Equipment (eBook)

Keith Brindley (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2014 | 2. Auflage
270 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-7988-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Modern Electronic Test Equipment

Keith is a freelance journalist whose whole life (well, apart from the wife, the kids, the music and the mountain bike) is computers. He's been writing about them (computers, that is) for over 18 years, in the meantime working as a teacher, lecturer, engineer, journalist and finally (for the last 12 years) freelance in the computing field. He fondly remembers his first contacts with the Commodore Pet, the various Sinclair oddities, the BBC, PC-DOS, MS-DOS, the Mac, and the various incarnations of Windows. He dreams of new software and hardware, he realises that writing about computers makes little compared to making computers or writing the software for them, he is fully committed to passing his experience along to and making computer-life easier for his readers, yet still enjoys what he's doing. Which can't be all bad!

Inhalt

Front Cover 
1 
Modern Electronic Test Equipment 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Preface 8
Part One: Equipment and Principles 10
Chapter 1. Introduction 12
The past 12
The present 12
The future 13
Explanation of terms 15
Book layout and description 16
Chapter 2. Analog meters 18
General-purpose meters 19
Specialised analog meters 28
Chapter 3. Digital meters 35
Signals and functions 36
Analog-to-digital conversion 40
Displays 46
Advantages of digital meters 47
Chapter 4. Oscilloscopes 51
What the oscilloscope displays 52
The basic oscilloscope 54
Specifications 62
Oscilloscope accessories 64
Equipment accuracy 67
New developments 70
Chapter 5. Signal sources 71
Low frequency oscillators 73
Signal generators 79
Chapter 6. Frequency, time and event counters 90
High frequency measurement 91
Low frequency measurement 93
Equipment and operation 95
Errors 98
Chapter 7. Spectrum analysers 102
Spectrum analyser types 104
Display characteristics 109
Equipment specifications and accuracy 114
Chapter 8. Logic analysers 116
Features 119
Main modes of use 122
Chapter 9. Time domain reflectometers 127
Metallic time domain reflectometers 128
Using the metallic time domain reflectometer 135
Optical time domain reflectometers 139
Chapter 10. Automatic test equipment 143
Basic methods of automatic test equipment 147
Types of automatic test equipment 152
Chapter 11. Buses 164
Bus data communications levels 166
V24/EIA232 169
EIA422/EIA423 169
EIA449 172
S100 172
Multibus 178
PC expansion bus 181
STE 184
VMEbus 185
GPIB 187
VXIbus 197
Part Two: Applications and Measurement Techniques 212
Chapter 12. Measurands and measurement equipment 214
Aerials or antennas 214
Amplifiers (untuned) 219
Capacitance 224
Current 228
Diode parameters 229
Distortion 231
Frequency 231
Impedance 232
Inductance 235
Light 236
Noise 236
Optical fibres 238
Phase 240
Pulse parameters 242
Resistance 243
SCR parameters 245
Signal-to-noise ratio 245
Time 245
Transmission lines 248
Appendix 1: Displays 252
Analog displays - the moving-coil movement 252
Analog/digital displays - the cathode ray tube (CRT) 255
Storage CRT 256
Digital displays 258
Appendix 2: Optical fibres 263
Transmission of light 264
Optical fibre types 268

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-7988-X / 148327988X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-7988-6 / 9781483279886