Instrumentation II: The microprocessors jack-of-all-trades: It's used for calibration, control, computation, conversion, decision-making, test, and maintenance
Howard Falk · IEEE Spectrum · 1974
While surveying the design of a dozen existing microprocessor-based instruments, the author was impressed by the variety of instrument functions that seem to lend themselves to microprocessor implementation. This article examines some of these functions, using various features of existing instruments as examples.