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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
92-1
92.1 Introduction
e fundamental task of a data acquisition system is the measurement or generation of real-world physical
si
gnals
. Be
fore
a ph
ysical
si
gnal
ca
n
be me
asured
by a co
mputer-based
sy
stem,
a se
nsor
or tr
ansducer
is us
ed
to co
nvert
th
e
ph
ysical
si
gnal
in
to
an el
ectrical
si
gnal,
su
ch
as vo
ltage
or cu
rrent
. O
en
on
ly
a pl
ug-in
da
ta
ac
quisition
(D
AQ)
bo
ard
is co
nsidered
th
e
da
ta
ac
quisition
sy
stem;
ho
wever,
a bo
ard
is on
ly
on
e
of th
e
co
m-
ponents
in th
e
sy
stem
. A co
mplete
DA
Q
sy
stem
co
nsists
of se
nsors,
si
gnal
co
nditioning,
in
terface
ha
rdware,
an
d
so
ware
. Un
like
st
and-alone
in
struments,
si
gnals
o
en
ca
nnot
be di
rectly
co
nnected ...
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