All items tagged with Design and Measurement (9)

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| 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...

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| 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...

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

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| 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:...

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

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

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| 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...

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

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