Customized instrumentation — Sensors associated with PCs

Customized instrumentation is the result of combining measurement instrumentation with the personal computer (PC). The PC's resources are harnessed to make the measuring instrument intelligent, and to facilitate the integration of numerous measurement tools into a single system.

This article reports on the rapid evolution of this customized instrumentation, due on the one hand to increasingly sophisticated interface cards and on the other to the growing power of computers. This evolution is changing the concept of traditional measurement.