Understanding Smart Sensors - Nomads.usp

Glossary 353buscalibrationconnection between internal or external circuit componentsprocess of modifying sensor output to improve output accuracycarrier band single-channel broadband; digital or modulated signal on asingle modulated carrierchip a die (unpackaged semiconductor device) cut from a silicon wafer andincorporating semiconductor circuit elements such as a sensor, actuator, resistor,diode, transistor, and/or capacitorclosed loop control system that utilizes a sensing device for measuring aprocess variable and making control decisions based on that feedbackcollision state of a data bus in which two or more transmitters are turned onsimultaneously to conflicting statescombinational technologiestechnologyintegrated mixed-signal (analog and digital)companding the process of reducing the dynamic range of voice or musicsignal (compressing) typically at the transmitter and then restoring (expanding)at the receivercompensationsource of errorcontentionconvolutionadded circuitry or materials designed to counteract a knownability to gain access to the bus on a predetermined prioritymathematical process that describes the operation of filterscoriolis force force that creates a deflection of a body in motion withrespect to the earth caused by the rotation of the earth; appears as a deflectionto the right in the northern hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the southernhemispheredata compression technique that provides for the transmission of fewerdata bits than originally required without information loss. The receiving locationexpands the received data bits into the original bit sequence.data loggingmethod of recording a process variable over a period of timedecimation process by which a sampled and digitized data stream is modifiedto extract relevant informationdefectivitydelta-Pin semiconductor wafer manufacturing, the defects per unit area∆P, change in pressure or pressure differential