Requisite(s): ((48541 Signal Theory OR 48540 Signals and Systems) AND 48441 Introductory Digital Systems)
Fields of practice: Electrical Engineering program
Undergraduate
By the end of this subject students should be able to: analyse, design, build and test data acquisition and distribution systems (DADS), measurement systems, and intelligent instrumentation systems; characterise, specify and select to satisfy the requirements of a DADS: sensors/transducers and associated circuits, transducer analogue interfacing and signal conditioning circuits, and data conversion devices and systems; interface DADS to computers, plant and installations; and write, test and embed control and programming software for DADS interfacing.
Material to be taught and learnt includes: applications, requirement specifications and typical architectures of DADS; general performance characteristics of DADS components and subsystems; physical principles and design fundamentals of sensors and transducers; mechanical, temperature, pressure, flow-rate, level transducers and applications; optoelectronic transducers and applications; transducer analogue interfacing; precision amplifiers and low-level signal conditioning; noise, guarding and shielding in instrumentation systems; data conversion devices and systems; DADS design; time and error budget of DADS; computer structures for DADS; DADS interfacing to computers and control software; intelligent instrumentation systems; and data integrity.
Assessment: Typically this subject will be assessed through laboratory and project work, assignments and a final examination.
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Autumn semester, Hong Kong
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Winter session, Hong Kong