Articles Measurement - 8

Introduction In Industrial motor or servo control applications, accurate current measurement is a critical as part of the control loop. Not only has the current measurement need to be as accurate as possible, it also needs to be safe and reliable. ...

TIAs are the most powerful type of time measurement instruments. In addition to the functions provided by traditional “frequency counters”, “time interval counters” and “universal counters”, TIAs include new ...

Jason Seitz, Texas Instruments EDN In today’s industrial automation and process-control applications, sensors that measure process parameters such as pressure, temperature, toxic gas, and pH are abundant. These sensors make industrial ...

Prasad Dhond Texas Instruments Introduction Sub-metering applications such as smart plugs and appliance energy meters enable consumers to understand and control their energy-usage patterns. Other sub-metering applications such as server power ...

Derek MacLachlan, Keithley Instruments Test Measurement World Part 1 Step 3 This step addresses building the test system and verifying its performance, including a number of techniques that can be used to improve measurement quality. Once a system ...

Derek MacLachlan Staff Applications Engineer Keithley Instruments, Inc. Accurate measurements are central to virtually every scientific and engineering discipline, but all too often measurement science gets little attention in the undergraduate ...

Part 1 ESD immunity The system-level ESD-immunity test simulates the ESD of a human onto an electronic component (Figure 7a). Electrostatic charge on a human can develop in low relative humidity, on low-conductivity carpets, and on vinyl garments. ...

Stephen Evanczuk, Electronic Products Digi-Key A tire-pressure-monitoring system (TPMS) provides early warning of abnormal tire pressure or failure. Used separately or in conjunction with other vehicle electronic systems, a TPMS serves an essential ...

Steve Sandler, Charles Hymowitz, AEI Systems Inc. Electronic Design Instead of your trusty old oscilloscope, try using a spectrum analyzer to measure the noise sources that degrade ADC performance Noise from the power supply, linear regulators, and ...

Stanford Research Systems Function generators have been around for a long while. Over time, these instruments have accumulated a long list of features. Starting with just a few knobs for setting the amplitude and frequency of a sinusoidal output, ...