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TTi is offering a course intended for laboratory and field test technicians and engineers working in the field of Digital Data Acquisition.

Here is the course outline:

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Course Outline No. 196

• Overview of the Measurement Process — The System Approach
  • The role and function of digital data acquisition.
  • Testing and experiment types — what capabilities are required?
  • Accuracy, Dynamic Range, Headroom
• Basic Concepts
  • Basic calculations
  • The Fourier Transform as a "Black Box"
  • Data presentation in time and spectral domain
• Sampling and Digitization Theory
  • Data acquisition speed and accuracy/resolution considerations
  • Aliasing
  • Noise and other data corruption problems
• Data Acquisition Hardware
  • Signal Conditioning
  • Amplifiers
    • Common-mode rejection
    • — Transducer wiring practice
  • Anti-alias filters
    • Estimating aliasing errors for different filter types
    • Filter/Sample-rate tradeoffs
  • Sample-and-hold amplifiers
  • Multiplexers
  • Analog-to-digital converters
    • Flash, Successive-approximation, Multi-pass, Sigma-Delta, Integrating
• The Computer System
  • Candidate computer systems — tradeoffs
  • Interface concepts — speed, implementation ease and robustness
  • Data storage — speed, volume considerations
• Types of Digital Acquisition Systems
  • Applications, Special considerations, Performance and limitations of available system architectures
• Data Analysis
  • Engineering-Unit Conversions
  • Data Interpolation
  • Correction of Anti-Alias filter distortion
• Evaluating Data Acquisition Systems
  • Simple tests to evaluate system accuracy/capability
• Specifying a system
  • How do you specify a system to get what you want?
• Final Examination
• Award of Certificates for successful completion

For enrollment, visit:
http://www.ttiedu.com/