Field device for determining or monitoring a physical or chemical, process variable

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9720386
APP PUB NO 20120004860A1
SERIAL NO

13174840

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A field device for determining or monitoring a physical or chemical, process variable, comprising: a sensor, which works according to a defined measuring principle; and a control/evaluation unit. The control/evaluation unit is realized on a partially dynamically reconfigurable FPGA component, which is constructed from a plurality of FPGA blocks units. Each FPGA block unit comprises a plurality of logic blocks. Global resources or global function blocks are associated with each FPGA block unit or groups of FPGA block units. At least a first section and a second section are provided on the FPGA-component. The sections comprise FPGA block units and corresponding global resources global function blocks. In each section a digital measuring path comprising a plurality of software based and/or hardware based, function modules, is partially dynamically reconfigurable.

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ENDRESS + HAUSER GMBH + CO KG79689 MAULBURG

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Girardey, Romuald Huningue, FR 29 70

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