Practical Data Acquisition for Instrumentation and Control System(1) : analog and digital signals, signal conditioning, the pc for real time work, plug-in data acquisition boards, serial data communications, distributed and stand-alone loggers/controllers, ieee 488 standard, ethernet & lan systems, the universal serial bus, specific techniques, the pcmcia card, noise and interference, data acquisition and control system configuration, types of signal conditioning, field wiring and signal measurement.