This book grew out of more than six decades of instrument-building at Berkeley Nucleonics and the timing course this handbook was written to accompany. The pages that follow introduce the company behind the work, the author who guided it, and where to find the companion course.
Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation (BNC) is a leading manufacturer of precision electronic instrumentation for test, measurement, and nuclear research. The company keeps its corporate headquarters in San Rafael, California, with additional manufacturing facilities and sales offices across the United States and an international network of manufacturer's representatives.
Since its founding in 1963, BNC has built instruments that meet demanding requirements for precision and stability while offering reliability and performance that customers can count on year after year. The company is driven by the long-term needs of industry, and it responds to new challenges as they reach the technical community.
That record shows up across several fields:
The pulse and digital delay generators described in this book are part of that timing product line. More about the company is available at www.berkeleynucleonics.com.
David A. Brown is President of Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation. After more than three decades with the company, his focus has turned to strategic growth into emerging markets. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University's Lam College of Business.
David authored the Berkeley Nucleonics Academy course this handbook accompanies, written to give engineers, students, and technical professionals a plain-language map of precision timing and the pulse generator. He lives in Northern California.
This handbook is the companion to an online course available at academy.berkeleynucleonics.com:
Read on its own, the book stands as a self-contained primer on timing vocabulary. Paired with the course, it becomes a structured path from the properties of a single pulse to the operation of a full multi-channel timing system.