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Manually Scaling Analog Signals

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IfIamusinganI/Omodulewithoutintegratedscaling(suchasFlexI/O)andIdonothaveaccesstoascaling
instruction,howdoImanuallyscalerawvaluesfromthemoduleincode?

Answer
Thefullformulaforanalogscalinghasthreeparts.Thethreepartsmustbeexecutedinthefollowingorder:
1.RATE=(ScaledMaxScaledMin)/(InputMaxInputMin)
2.OFFSET=ScaledMin(InputMinxRate)
3.SCALEDVALUE=(ActualTagValuexRate)+Offset
Belowaresomeexamples.

Example1
Instrument1isatemperaturetransducer.Itsspecsindicateitsrangeis0100(at0degreesCitoutputs4ma,
at100degreesitoutputs20ma).Theanaloginputmodule'smanualindicatesthattheinputchannel,when
configuredfor420ma,outputshexadecimalvaluesof00007878(030840decimal).
Solet'scalculateourscalingvalues.

Rate=(1000)/(308400)=0.0032425
Offset=(0(0x0.0032425)=0
ScaledValuewillbe=(ActualTagValuex0.0032425)+0,whichcanbesimplifiedtoActualTagValuex
0.0032425.
YoucansubstitutetheactualinputtagforActualTagValue.
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Example2
Instrument2isapressuretransducer.Itsspecsindicateitsrangeis150800psi(at150psiitoutputs4ma,at
800psiitoutputs20ma).
Asbefore,theanaloginputmodule'smanualindicatesthattheinputchannel,whenconfiguredfor420ma,
outputshexadecimalvaluesof00007878(030840decimal).
Solet'scalculateourscalingvalues.

Rate=(800150)/(308400)=0.021077
Offset=(150(0x0.021077)=150
SoourScaledValuewillbe=(ActualTagValuex0.021077)+150.

Example3
Wearecalculatinganinternalvaluethatismeanttocontrolavalvefromaminimumof0%to100%open.The
analogoutputmodule'smanualindicatesthattheoutputchannel,whenconfiguredfor420ma,outputs4maat
ahexadecimaltagvaluesof0000,anditoutputs20maatahexadecimaltagvalueof7878(030840decimal).
Inthisexample,ourscalingcalculationisthesame,butsincewearescalingtoanoutput,wewillswapourinput
andtagvalues,sincetheoutput(scaledvalue)isnowintendedfortheoutputmodule.
Solet'scalculateourscalingvalues.

Rate=(308400)/(1000)=308.4
Offset=(0(0x308.4)=0
SoourScaledValuewillbe=(ActualTagValuex308.4)+0,whichcanbesimplifiedto
ActualTagValuex308.4.
Writingtheresultofthiscalculationtotheoutputtagwillproducethedesired420mavalue.

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