All items tagged with Measurement and Design (9)

1-07-2016 | Andre-Marie Ampere never went to school. Born in Lyon, France, André-Marie Ampère, AM to his friends, figured it out all by himself in the w...

1-03-2001 | In previous articles in this series we have described an A/D converter based on a counter. A ‘real’ A/D converter, however, converts a volta...

1-02-2001 | In the previous instalment we measured capacitances and resistances. You may have wondered if this was all worth the effort, when accurate a...

1-01-2001 | So far in this series we have used the PC only with digital signals: switching, monitoring and counting. Now we turn to the analogue domain:...

1-11-1998 | It is just about ten years ago that this magazine published the design of a barometer/altimeter. In these ten years electronics techno...

1-03-1993 | The PC may not transmit characters to the counter while this is busy executing the command string. Any character, in particular US, has t...

1-03-1992 | When the value of a capacitor or inductor is measured, it is imperative that ohmic losses do not affect the result. The principle of measu...

1-02-1991 | This month's instalment deals with a very important measurement: that of resistance. This measurement is important not only in faultfindin...

1-01-1991 | The high-performance insertion card described in this article allows your IBM PC-XT, PC-AT or 100% compatible to measure direct voltage at...