Tag: data comm protocols

Developed by the Modicon company (the original manufacturer of the Programmable Logic Controller,...

A technological advance introduced in the late 1980’s was HART, an acronym standing...

At the next OSI Reference Model layer (layer 4) is a set of protocols specifying how reliable communication...

I remember first learning about the world-wide Internet, and wondering what it actually looked like. The first...

An engineer named Bob Metcalfe conceived the idea of Ethernet in 1973, while working for the Xerox research center in...

Some of the simplest types of digital communication networks found in industry are defined by the EIA (Electronic...

One of the great benefits of digital technology is the ability to communicate vast amounts of information...

Modern analog-to-digital converters are phenomenally accurate, dependable, repeatable, and surprisingly inexpensive as...

In order to provide an interface between the internal (digital) world of a computer and the external (analog) world of...

Binary patterns are not just able to represent numerical values. Given a standardized code, they may represent...

Process measurements are often of an analog nature: the temperature of a furnace, the rate of fluid flow through a...