Patent ID: 6697763
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: F02F,G01R

Abstract:
A method for measuring the condition of a target system with a measurement module in electrical communication with said target system, compressing the steps of:a. said module receiving measurement, command from a host computing device; b. configuring at least one multiplexor in said module to access a selected signal from said target system; c. converting said signal from an analog state into a representative digital measurement; d. storing said digital measurement in a memory device; and, e. transmitting said digital measurement to said host computing device for analysis, wherein said step of transmitting said digital measurement to said host comprises the steps of: e-1. determining whether a data ready variable is true; e-2. if said data ready variable is true then performing the following steps i-iv: i. filling a transmit FIFO with up to 8 bytes of data from a sampling data set; ii. determining whether said FIFO is fill; iii. If FIFO is full then sending all FIFO data to said host computing device, otherwise determining whether more data is available from said sampling data set; iv. if no more data is available from said sampling data set then transmitting contents of said FIFO to said host computing device; e-3. repeat step e-1.