Rice University, Houston, TX - May 16, 2018
Sampling rates? Windows? Leakage? No problem! Learn how to take meaningful and correct digital data in any situation at our seminar at Rice University in Houston, TX.
This free seminar can help you answer questions like:
- What causes ground loops and how do I avoid them?
- How does a differential transducer improve my data quality?
- When do I need to apply a window to my data? How do windows distort my data, and how do I correct for this?
- When should I use a Power Spectral Density function?
- How do filters effect my data?
Agenda - Digital Data Acquisition and Signal Processing
08:00 AM Welcome and coffee
08:30 AM Introduction to Digital Data Acquisition
- Measurement chain
- Structure
- Wiring
- Signal Conditioning
- Filtering
- Analog to digital conversion
10:00 AM Break
10:00 AM Sources of Error
- Ground loops
- Common vs floating ground
- Virtual sound power testing
- Noise
- Aliasing
- Time delays
- Out-of-band overloads
Noon Lunch
1:00 PM Digital Signal Processing
- Sampling rate, blocksize, acquisition time
- Bandwidth, spectral lines, frequency resolution
- Aliasing
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM Digital Signal Processing
- Windows (hanning, flattop, etc.) and leakage
- FFTs, phase, autopowers
- Autopowers vs power spectral density (PSDs)
- Filters: finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR)
4:30 PM Close
Venue
Duncan Hall 1070 - "Mabee Lecture Hall"
Rice University
Houston, TX 77005
Parking:
Founders Court Lot at Rice University
Duncan Hall is located on Laboratory Rd.