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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
88-1
88.1 Introduction
Almost every modern instrumentation system includes some form of digitizer, or analog-to-digital
converter (ADC). An ADC converts real-world signals (usually voltages) into digital numbers so that a
co
mputer
or di
gital
pr
ocessor
ca
n
(1
)
ac
quire
si
gnals
aut
omatically,
(2
)
st
ore
an
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re
trieve
in
formation
ab
out
th
e
si
gnals,
(3
)
pr
ocess
an
d
an
alyze
th
e
in
formation,
an
d
(4
)
di
splay
me
asurement
re
sults
. A di
gi-
tizing
sy
stem
ca
n
do th
ese
jo
bs
wi
th
gr
eater
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eed,
re
liability,
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peatability,
ac
curacy,
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re
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an
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rely
an
alog
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stem
no
rmally
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n
.
Th
e
tw
o
ma
in
fu
nctions
of an AD
C
ar
e
sa
mpling and quantization
. Th
ese
tw
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