Real-time system

Real-time clocks (RTCs). Real-time systems are required to respond to events, as they occur, in a timely manner. This is especially crucial in process control systems where control actions applied at the wrong time may amplify process deviations or destabilize the processes. The nodes in the systems are interrupted periodically by the real-time clocks to maintain the ac tual elapsed times. 

With the advent of computerized real-time systems, the distinction between continuous and periodic condition monitoring must be modified. Though technically periodic, a scanning system operating fast enough to protect against catastrophic failure is considered continuous. Most people consider one second or faster scan rates as continuous. A scan rate of one second is defined as monitoring each point once each second. 

Peclet number, multiparticle collision dynamics, real-time systems, 114... 

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Finally, let us underline an important feedback loop starting at the real-time system and ending at the tool preparation station, which contains the real-time tool status, wear, and part priority information. These data are often useful to those people and/or system software systems that deal with the generation of the production rule base. It is also a very useful data set for FMS designers, since a lot of data which would previously have been lost will be saved in this way. 

Some simple definitions of dosing, monitoring, and control are given below, although with the advent of real-time systems, the distinctions between monitoring and control are becoming distinctly blurred. 

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Feature Navigator REAL-Time System REAL-Time System DexCom Seven ... 

D. Donhoffer and E. Schoitsch, (ed.), Proceedings of the Joint EU Workshop Advanced Real Time Systems. Vienna, March 26, 2001, 2001. 

Yourdon, Jackson System Development, and MASCOT, which can be used for real-time system development... 

RTSASD Real-Time System-Analysis System-Design... 

STARTS Software Tools for Large Real-Time Systems... 

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Current and projected markets for chemical sensors are shown in table 23.8. The biomedical market consists primarily of chemical sensors for blood gases and electrolytes. This area is growing as portable, real time systems such as the i-STAT clinical analyzer are increasingly used at point of care and remote testing locations. The demand for faster, more reliable, and cheaper detectors for environmental and workplace monitoring for toxic gases and volatile organics... 

Figure 8.5 The Paradigm REAL-Time System (Reproduced by permission of Medtronic MiniMed).

Because the sequence is controlled by the TCSPC hardware, it is possible to achieve extremely fast and accurate stepping, down to less than a microsecond per data block. Of course, sequential recording can also be achieved by software control of a TCSPC device, and advanced TCSPC devices in fact include operating modes for recording software-controlled sequences. However, modem computers are far from being real-time systems. Stepping faster than 100 ms per step becomes inaccurate, which makes an accumulation of software-controlled sequences impossible. 

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