Handbook: Guide to signal switching for automation, test applications

Learn or review the fundamentals of the switching function in automation and test applications with useful tutorial information on how to optimize automated switching systems using this guide.

By Control Engineering Staff May 15, 2008

Cleveland, OH – Learn or review the fundamentals of the switching function in automation and test applications with useful tutorial information on how to optimize automated switching systems. Test and measurement instrument and system developer

Keithley Instruments

has released the sixth edition of its Switching Handbook: A

Guide to Signal Switching in Automated Test Systems

. At more than 180 pages, divided into seven sections, it discusses topics such as:• Switching function and switching components;• Issues in switch system design;• Switch configurations by signal type; and• Applications.It also features three appendices, including a glossary of commonly used switching terms, switch card and switch module selector guides, and a discussion of safety considerations. The guide also could help system integration.– C.G. Masi , senior editor Control Engineering News Desk Register here and scroll down to select your choice of eNewsletters free .