BIC061

Digital Measurement Techniques

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2024-25 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Electronics & Instrumentation / Instrumentation & Control · Sem 6 (Department Elective-III)

Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1: Philosophy of digital measurements

8 hrs

Digital Time Measurement Techniques: Measurement of time interval between two events, Error in time interval measurement, Vernier technique for small time measurement, Measurement of time interval with constraints, Measurement of periodic time, phase, Time interval between two events defined by voltage levels, Capacitance, Quality factor of ringing circuit, Decibel meter

Unit2

Unit 2: Digital Frequency Measurement Techniques

8 hrs

Measurement of frequency, Ratio of two frequencies, Product of two frequencies, High frequency, average Frequency difference, Deviation of power frequency, Peak frequency. Fast low-frequency measurement.

Unit3

Unit 3: Digitally Programmable Circuits

8 hrs

Single mode switching, Group mode switching, Resistors, Potentiometers, Amplifiers, Schmitt trigger, Dual polarity gain amplifiers. Programmable gain amplifier with dual output, Two stage programming, Programmable Biquads.

Unit4

Unit 4: Digital to Analog Converters

8 hrs

Output Input relation, DACs derived from programmable gain amplifiers, Weighted-resistor DAC, Weighted current DAC, Weighted reference voltage DAC, Ladder DAC, Switches.

Unit5

Unit 5: Digital Voltage Measurement Techniques

8 hrs

Sampling theorem, Time-division multiplexing, Quantization, Indirect type A/D converters, Direct type A/D converters, Input circuitry of a digital voltmeter.

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1To describe the basic knowledge of Digital Measurement Technique.
  2. CO2To demonstrate the concepts of DMT involved in term of frequency.
  3. CO3To explain the concepts of programmable circuits.
  4. CO4To analyze the performance of digital to analog converters.
  5. CO5To apply the concept of voltage measurement in DMT.

Text Books

  1. “Digital Measurement Techniques”, T. S. Rathore, by Narosa Publishing House, 1996

Reference Books

  1. A.K. Maini, All in One Electronics Simplified, Khanna Publishing House, Delhi

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 25 of the original AKTU PDF.

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