Patent ID: 8564466

Claim:
An analog input system comprising: one or more slave input units each connected to a bus to which a CPU unit is connected, and each including an A/D conversion device that is connected to an external device for outputting an analog value and converts an analog value outputted by the external device into a first digital value, a first buffer memory that buffers a second digital value to be transferred to the CPU unit, and a nonvolatile storage device that stores specific information of its own unit; and a master unit connected to the bus and including an operation section that performs operation processing based on the specific information stored in the storage device with the first digital value outputted by the A/D conversion device being used as an input, thereby to calculate the second digital value, the master unit performing on each of the slave input units the operation processing of the operation section and processing of transferring the second digital value calculated by the operation processing to the first buffer memory.