New Book on the 3458A Multimeter

Sampling with 3458A: Understanding, Programming, Sampling and Signal Processing

Sampling with 3458A by Rado Lapuh
ISBN 978-961-94476-0-4

Author Rado Lapuh has many years of experience in the field of electrical metrology. Sampling with 3458A summarizes almost a decade of his work, together with many colleagues from National Laboratories on use of the high-end digital multimeter model 3458A, first introduced by Hewlett Packard in 1988. This instrument stands out from other multimeters due to its features, such as its self-calibration capability, the linearity of its ADC and its high-speed sampling modes. Three decades after its introduction, the 3458A is still unrivaled in some of its characteristics. In electrical measurements, sampling methods are superseding more and more of the traditional analog measurement techniques. This book explains and describes the sampling capabilities of the 3458A multimeter together with many examples of its practical applications.

The book is divided into several chapters, focused on the following subjects:

  1. Programming a 3458A for sampling
  2. 3458A sampling performance
  3. Practical examples from NMI laboratories
  4. Sampling theory simplified
  5. Appendices (12), detailed bibliography, index, …

It represents ideal tool to be used as a knowledge support of calibration staff at metrological laboratories around the world. Source code of the algorithms described in the book is available to the readers.

More information about the book may be found here: https://www.amtest-tm.com/en/action/r-lapuh-sampling-with-3458a-isbn-978-961-94476-0-4/