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Section 11. Glossary
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operatingsystem
Theoperatingsystem(alsoknownas"firmware")isasetofinstructions
thatcontrolsthebasicfunctionsoftheCR800andenablestheuseof
userwrittenCRBasicprograms.Theoperatingsystemispreloadedinto
theCR800atthefactorybutcanbere‐loadedorupgradedbytheCR
800
userusingDeviceConfigurationUtility
(p.92)software.Themostrecent
CR800operatingsystemfileisavailableatwww.campbellsci.com
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output
Alooselyappliedterm.Denotesa)theinformationcarriergeneratedby
anelectronicsensor,b)thetransferofdatafromvariablestorageto
finalstorage,orc)thetransferofpowerfromtheCR800oraperipheral
toanotherdevice.
outputarray
Astringofdatavaluesoutputtofinalstorage.Outputoccurswhenthe
datatableoutputtriggeristrue.
outputinterval
Thetimeintervalbetweeninitiationsofaparticulardata‐tablerecord.
outputprocessinginstructions
Processdatavaluesandgenerateoutputarrays.Examplesofoutput
processinginstructionsincludeTotalize(),Maximize(),Minimize(),
Average().Thedatasourcesfortheseinstructionsarevaluesin
variables.Theresultsofintermediatecalculationsarestoredinmemory
toawaittheoutputtrigger.Theultimatedestinationofdatage
nerated
byoutputprocessinginstructionsisusuallyfinalstorage,butitmaybe
outputtovariablesforfurtherprocessing.Thetransferofprocessed
summariestofinalstoragetakesplacewhentheoutputtriggerissetto
True.
PakBus
Aproprietarytelecommunicationsprotocolsimilarinconceptto
internetprotocol(IP).IthasbeendevelopedbyCampbellScientificto
facilitatecommunicationsbetweenCampbellScientificinstrumentation.
PakBusGraphsoftware
ShowstherelationshipofvariousnodesinaPakBusnetwork,and
allowsforadjustmentofmanysettingsineachnode.APakBusnodeis
typicallyadatalogger,aPC,oratelecommunicationsdevice.