This book grew out of more than six decades of instrument-building at Berkeley Nucleonics and the curiosity of the people who run it. The pages that follow introduce the company behind the work, the author who guided it, and the place this handbook holds in the wider BNC learning library.
Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation (BNC) is a manufacturer of precision electronic instrumentation for test, measurement, and nuclear research. Founded in 1963, the company keeps its corporate headquarters in San Rafael, California, with additional offices across the United States and a network of international representatives.
Across those decades, BNC has built instruments that meet demanding requirements for precision and stability while offering the reliability that customers count on year after year. The company is driven by the long-term needs of industry, and it responds to new technical challenges as they reach the field rather than waiting for them to become routine.
More about the company is available at www.berkeleynucleonics.com.
David A. Brown is President of Berkeley Nucleonics. After more than thirty years 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.
He lives in Northern California.
This handbook is part of the Berkeley Nucleonics “Nuts and Bolts” series, a set of plain-language guides to the technologies BNC instruments are built to support. This volume covers radar systems, from the underlying principles to the measurement challenges that working engineers face today.
Read on its own, the book stands as a self-contained primer. Companion learning is available at academy.berkeleynucleonics.com, where the courses turn the same material into a structured path from first principles to practice.
Product specifics mentioned in this series should be verified against the current BNC datasheet before they are relied on.