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For the complete message this is responding to see http://www.control.com/thread/1327707041#1328379156
> Armin Steinhoff said:
>> Yes ... and the best answer I could find today is here:
>> http://www.mnbtech.com/index.php?id=164
>>
>> Software is the solution.
> Charlie Said: Your reference: http://www.mnbtech.com/index.php?id=164 describes "Mixed Technologies,"
> which is the addition of hardware solutions (FPGAs and Graphical Processing Units) to General Processing Units (common computer processing).
> So, hardware is at least some of the solution.
Programmable hardware is at least the solution.
> Charlie Said: There is a distinction between:
> Computation: the modification of input character strings (data) to produce displayable information, and
> Process Control: activities taken to ensure a process is predictable, stable, and
> consistently operates at the target level of performance with only normal variation.
From the view of computation there are no differences.
> Charlie Said: Computation can be used for process control, but it is not necessarily the best use for
> that technology. Appropriate uses of computation are cryptography, weather- and topological-map generation
> and updating, and art authentication, although we use it for most any task.
The use of mixed technology is the issue ... that means you can include the right hardware for your individual problem.
Best Regards
Armin Steinhoff
> Armin Steinhoff said:
>> Yes ... and the best answer I could find today is here:
>> http://www.mnbtech.com/index.php?id=164
>>
>> Software is the solution.
> Charlie Said: Your reference: http://www.mnbtech.com/index.php?id=164 describes "Mixed Technologies,"
> which is the addition of hardware solutions (FPGAs and Graphical Processing Units) to General Processing Units (common computer processing).
> So, hardware is at least some of the solution.
Programmable hardware is at least the solution.
> Charlie Said: There is a distinction between:
> Computation: the modification of input character strings (data) to produce displayable information, and
> Process Control: activities taken to ensure a process is predictable, stable, and
> consistently operates at the target level of performance with only normal variation.
From the view of computation there are no differences.
> Charlie Said: Computation can be used for process control, but it is not necessarily the best use for
> that technology. Appropriate uses of computation are cryptography, weather- and topological-map generation
> and updating, and art authentication, although we use it for most any task.
The use of mixed technology is the issue ... that means you can include the right hardware for your individual problem.
Best Regards
Armin Steinhoff