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Description / Abstract:
This standard defines a digital interface for connecting
transducers to microprocessors. It describes a TEDS and its data
formats. It defines an electrical interface. Read and write logic
functions to access the TEDS, and a wide variety of transducers.
This standard does not specify signal conditioning. Signal
conversion, or how the TEDS data is use in applications.
Purpose
There is currently no defined independent digital communication
interface standard between transducers and microprocessors. Each
vendor builds its own interface. Without and independent, openly
defied interface, transducer interfacing and integration are
time-consuming and duplicated efforts by vendors are economically
unproductive. This interface provides a minimum implementation
subset that allows self-identification and configuration of sensors
and actuator, and also allows extensibility by vendors to provide
growth and product differentiation.