High software

Part 7 Part 7 contains important information for those doing product development work on equipment to be certified per lEC 61508. Annex A addresses control of random hardware failures. Annex B covers the avoidance of systematic failures through the different phases of the safety life cycle. Annex C provides a detailed overview of techniques for achieve high software integrity. 

Our experiences with the software developed within the ANDES project have shown that CBR is a helpful methodology for use in the interpretation of NDT data from field inspections. Because CBR systems can adapt to new situations they can cope with inspection of varying constructions in varying conditions. However, because CBR systems learn from classifications made by the operator this means that they will not be very useful for completely automatic interpretation. Fortunately, most of the NDT inspection requires the presence of an operator because of the required high reliability. 

Therefore it is reasonable to prepare already the data acquisition for a three dimensional evaluation in cone-beam-technique by means of two-dimensional detectors. The system is already prepared to integrate a second detector- system for this purpose. An array of up to four flat panel detectors is foreseen. The detector- elements are based on amorphous silicon. Because of the high photon energy and the high dose rates special attention was necessary to protect the read-out electronics. Details of the detector arrangement and the software for reconstruction, visualisation and comparison between the CT results and CAD data are part of a separate paper during this conference [2]. 

In order to get an extremely high resolution and a small dead zone" (after the transmitter pulse) single amplifier states must have a bandwidth up to 90 MHz ( ), and a total bandwidth of 35 MHz (-3 dB) can be reached (HILL-SCAN 3010HF). High- and low-pass filters can be combined to band-passes and provide optimal A-scans. All parameters are controlled by software. 

Critical to the successtlil completion of this process are the software tools required to store and analyse the inspection and related data. This is a major task and to achieve this OIS has produced, in conjunction with a major specialist technical software provider, the Asset Condition Evaluation Tool (Acet). Acet is a comprehensive suite of programs which draws on the extensive experience of engineers working in this field for many years, to provide a readily usable and highly auditable package for this application. 

Thus, in the area of combinatorial chemistry, many compounds are produced in short time ranges, and their structures have to be confirmed by analytical methods. A high degree of automation is required, which has fueled the development of software that can predict NMR spectra starting from the chemical structure, and that calculates measures of similarity between simulated and experimental spectra. These tools are obviously also of great importance to chemists working with just a few compounds at a time, using NMR spectroscopy for structure confirmation. 

NWChem is part of the Molecular Science Software Suite (MS ) which has been recognized by R D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically signihcant new products and processes of 1999. The other elements of MS are Ecce, which is a problem-solving environment, and ParSoft, which is the underlying libraries and tools for parallel communication and high-performance input/output. All of the MS components are available publicly. 

GAMESS stands for general atomic and molecular electronic structure system (we reviewed a version dated Dec. 2, 1998). It is an ah initio and semiempirical program, and has seen the most widespread use for ah initio calculations. The ASCII input hie format is usable but somewhat more lengthy than some other programs. The fact that GAMESS is a free, high-quality software makes it a favorite of many academic researchers. 

In order to balance public domain science with a high quality commercial software product it has been necessary for us to reimplement almost every aspect of computational chemistry embodied in HyperChem. All HyperChem source code is written in C or C-t-t, specified, designed, and implemented by Hyper-Chem s developers. We have stood on the scientific shoulders of giants, but we have not used their FORTRAN code Thus, although we have had access to MOPAC and other public domain codes for testing and other purposes, HyperChem computes MINDO, MNDO, and AMI wave functions, for example, with HyperChem code, not MOPAC code. We have made the effort to implement modern chemical science in a modern software-engineered product. 

The linear regression calculations for a 2 factorial design are straightforward and can be done without the aid of a sophisticated statistical software package. To simplify the computations, factor levels are coded as +1 for the high level, and -1 for the low level. The relationship between a factor s coded level, Xf, and its actual value, Xf, is given as... 

Software programs are usually written in a more user-friendly high-level language such as Fortran, Pascal, or C, which facilitates the tedious and labor-intensive task of writing a computer program. 

Although much easier to assemble, a software program written in a high-level language requires more time for the computer to execute, since all the instructions must be translated into machine code before the computer can understand them. Even a simple statement like start in a high-level language requires several machine-code moves to execute. 

Some scales have a software feature whereby a certain geographical region is identified on initial configuration, and the software then makes the appropriate correction. Some high performance balances have built-in test weights for initial (and periodic) calibration. 

Kinetic studies have benefited immensely from microcomputers. Whereas dedicated software is often necessary for interfacing to specific instmments, data analysis can be carried out using readily available software materials capable of producing high quaUty graphical output. Most recentiy, it has become common to measure concentrations in some way that produces digital data that is entered automatically into the computer (see Computer technology). 

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