This article presents the challenges of instrumentation designs and the solutions of these challenges. The article will also presents some common characteristics for all instrumentation designs for ...

On August 6, the scientific and engineering community around the world was transfixed on the final moments of the NASA Mars Curiosity rover landing. Many of us are still mesmerized by the images ...

The International Society of Automation (ISA) has published a new edition of its popular technical book, Successful Instrumentation and Control Systems Design, Second Edition, by Michael D. Whitt. The ...

In the past 10 years, the pharmaceutical industry has been moving towards a design space approach to development and manufacture – an approach that has been defined by ICHQ8, Q9 and Q10, and the ...

Leading embedded processor and intellectual property (IP) developers have adopted the Open Chip Protocol (OCP) socket as a standards-based approach to on-chip bus integration. An emerging capability ...

In order for an op amp to output a linear voltage, the input signal must be within the device’s input common-mode range specification (V CM) and the output must be within the device’s output swing ...