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PC-based instrumentation and control / Mike Tooley.

By: Tooley, Michael H.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Newnes, 1995Edition: 2nd ed.Description: x, 388p + pbk.ISBN: 0750620935 (m); 9780750620932.Subject(s): Automatic control -- Data processing | Microprocessors | Instruments & instrumentation engineering | Other manufacturing technologies | Computer architecture & logic design | Electronic devices & materials | Automatic control engineering | PCs (IBM-compatible personal computers)DDC classification: 629.89 TOO Summary: Explains, using real, working, proven circuit examples, how to select and configure a control system based on readily available software and hardware. Representative software routines in a variety of languages (including 8086 assembler, BASIC and C) are included.
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General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 629.89 TOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 38888000338537
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this established text Mike Tooley explains how to design and implement control systems using easily sourced components and tried and tested circuits. Representative software routines in a variety of languages (including 8086 assembler, BASIC and C) are included.

Previous ed.: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991.

Explains, using real, working, proven circuit examples, how to select and configure a control system based on readily available software and hardware. Representative software routines in a variety of languages (including 8086 assembler, BASIC and C) are included.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • The IBM PC and compatibles
  • PC expansion systems
  • The operating system
  • System configuration
  • Programming
  • Assembly language programming
  • BASIC programming
  • C programming
  • The IEEE-488 bus; Interfacing
  • Software packages
  • Applications
  • Reliability and fault using real, working, proven circuit examples

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Mike Tooley is a technical author and consultant. He was formerly Vice Principal at Brooklands College in Surrey, England, where he was responsible for the delivery of learning to over 10,000 Further and Higher Education students increasingly by flexible, open and on-line distance learning. Mike is the well-known author of several popular engineering and related text books, including widely adopted course texts for BTEC, GCE A-level and GCSE qualifications in Engineering. Mike's hobbies include astronomy, amateur radio, aviation, computing and electronic circuit design and construction.