Digital signal conditioning
In digital instrumentation system, especially in digital electronics, digital computers have taken a major role in near every aspect of life in our modern world. Digital electronics is at the heart of computers, but there are many direct applications of digital electronics. All these digital electronics need data to be presented to them in a digital format (i.e. the data have to be digitally conditioned). This is called digital conditioning. Since computers are electronics devices, all the information they work with has to be digitally formatted. Therefore, if they are used to control a variable such as  temperature, then the temperature has to be represented digitally. That's why we need digital signal conditioning to condition process-control signal to be an approximated digital format. Introduction and digital fundamentals. Digital signal conditioning in process control means finding a way to represent analog process information in digital format. Use of in control system is particularly valuable number of other reasons, however: Digital information. The use of digital techniques in process control system hat process variable measurements and control information be encoded into a digital form. Digital signals themselves are simply two-scale (binary) These levels may be represented  in many ways. For example, two volts, two currents, two frequencies etc. Digital words. Given the simple binary information that is carried by signal digital, it is clear that multiple signals must be used to describe analog information. Generally, this is done by using an assemblage of digital levels to construct a binary number, often called a "word". The individuals digital levels are referred to as "bits" of the word. Thus, for example, a 6-bit word consists of six independent digital levels, such as formula_1, which can be thought of as six-digit base 2 number. An important consideration , then, is how the analog information is encoded into this digital word. Digital whole numbers. One of the most common scheme for encoding analog into s digital word is to use the straight counting of decimal (or base 10) and binary numbers representations. Some examples. formula_2 Find the base 10 equivalent of the binary whole number formula_3 ? Solution. As in the base 10 system, zero preceding the first significant digit do not contribute. Thus, the binary number is actually formula_4, and formula_5, decimal equivalent can be computed as follows: formula_6 formula_7 formula_8 formula_9