Universal coders for automatic measuring systems

Conclusions

The above block schematics of universal multichannel coding functional converters can be used for making up automatic digital measuring systems.

By means of these converters the measuring systems acquire computing characteristics which provide an evaluation and correction of errors due, for instance, to the nonlinearity of continuous information transducers. Moreover, the functional coding operation considerably widens the application of measuring equipment with a digital output by extending it to indirect measurements.

It should be noted that the solution of a similar problem of functional coding by combining linear coding converters with electronic functional converters of a continuous type (for instance, diode functional converters) leads to more cumbersome, less reliable devices whose coding accuracy is inferior to that of the functional devices described in this article. Moreover, in using functional converters of a continuous type it is difficult to provide multiconditional coding operations.