"Advanced Instrumentation & Computer I/O Design, 2nd. Edition, employs comprehensive electronic device and circuit specifications to design custom defined-accuracy sensor instrumentation and computer interfacing systems with definitive accountability to assist critical applications"--
Garrett (electrical and computer engineering, U. of Cincinnati) describes the systematic design of instrumented processes aided by advanced decision-and-control methodologies. He walks through the process from input sensor signal conditioning to output sampled-data linear signal reconstruction designs, at data accuracies of interest. Then he evolves process design methods culminating in a hierarchical subprocess control architecture. His topics include instrumentation amplifiers and parameter errors, filters for measurement signals, data conversion devices and parameters, instrumented processes decision and control, and process automation applications. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Advanced Instrumentation & Computer I/O Design, 2nd Edition, employs comprehensive electronic device and circuit specifications to design custom defined-accuracy sensor instrumentation and computer interfacing systems with definitive accountability to assist critical applications. These real-world electrical engineering designs are required by broad users from industrial enterprises to basic research institutions and government laboratories. The initial six chapters develop sensor-amplifier-filter signal conditioning design methods, enabled by device and system mathematical models, to achieve conditioned signal accuracies of interest and follow-on computer data conversion and reconstruction functions. Chapter 7 integrates the preceding chapters to provide complete automated system design analyses employing the Analysis Suite computer-assisted engineering spreadsheet. Chapters 8 and 9 then develop an extension of these performance accountability methods coordinated with versatile and evolving hierarchical subprocess and control architectures, to overcome difficult contemporary process automation challenges combining both quantitative and qualitative methods. Chapter 10 concludes this book with a taxonomy of computer interfaces and standards including telemetry, virtual, and analytical instrumentation. End-of-chapter problems provide enhanced educational value.