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Accuracy is the deviation of a measurement from a known standard. Accuracy is normally specified in percent.
ADC is used to convert DC voltage from transducers into digital words (data). The voltage represents a temperature. pressure, flow, pH, or speed and must converted to a digital word before it can be passed to an intelligent device like a computer.
An alarm reporting/logging can show the steps that led to a production line being shut down and the points on the line to be checked before starting it again.
Amplifiers are used to boost the analog level (voltage) of the signal.
- American Electronics Standards Institute C language
The ANSI sets standards for data and communication codes, and for programming and data management languages.
An annunciator panel/screen shows both essential information and alarms to provide danger level coding and display multiple alarm messages.
The D/A converter performs the opposite function of an A/D converter. It interprets commands from the computer and outputs the proper DC voltage or current. The output stays at this output level until the computer tells the D/A converter to output a new value.
API allows access to two layers of the open systems interconnect (OSI) model and provides high-level calls to the program for general purpose, name, data, and session support.
Attenuators are used to lower the analog level (voltage) of a signal.
- Attachment Unit Interface
- Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
- Binary Coded Decimal
Bit-mapped graphics require you to use graphics-oriented software, or drawing tools and libraries of symbols which you may be able to modify.
Strain gages change resistance so slightly (0.00024 ohms per microstrain) that a bridge circuit is needed to see it. The bridge in effect highlights this small resistance change in the form of a voltage. Strain gages multiplexers normally contain this bridge circuitry including the DC voltage power supply. Quarter-, Half-, and Full-bridge configurations can be used for increased sensitivity.
- Control Area Network
The CAN is a serial bus system especially suited for networking symbol 147 \f "Times New Roman"intelligentsymbol 148 \f "Times New Roman" I/O devices as well as sensors and actors within a machine or plane.
Character graphics offer special graphics characters (such as motors, pumps, pipes, and tanks) which you display as special, or “alternate” letters or numbers on the screen.
- Cold- Junction Compensation
The CJC let you make direct temperature measurements from thermocouple transducer.
The close-loop control is more sophisticated. The measurement hardware makes a measurement and the results is compared to the desired value (called the setpoint). Using the error value (difference between measured value and desired value), the computer performs one or more calculations and sends out a control value. The control value is used by the control hardware to effect a change.
- Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor