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ADI | Industry 4.0 and Beyond
Whether used for a process control installation or an industrial
automation system, an input/output (I/O) module or a field junction
box has various unique challenges in the whole product life cycle.
Product management faces decisions on how many channels and
which combinations will be necessary for each product.
Electronic designers must decide how to implement the best
performance and cost-efficient system for various analog or
digital signals in their projects. Installation technicians can be
overwhelmed by all the different products and numerous wiring
schemes. Wouldn't life be easier if we could design a system with
the ultimate flexibility against such difficulties? Analog Devices'
How Software Configurable
Hardware Helps for Flexibility
in Industrial I/O Modules
Figure 1: Channel number and configuration possibilities. (Source: Analog Devices Inc.)
new product family of software configurable input/output (SWIO)
integrated circuits achieves this goal by supporting any function
and any combination on any pin at any time.
What is in Analog Devices' SWIO Family?
For an industrial programmable logic controller (PLC) or distributed
control system (DCS) in process control or factory automation, end-
customers and applications have differing requirements. For product
managers to define the correct product, strategy and optimization
is a huge task. One
end-customer
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Hakan Uenlue
Senior Field
Applications Engineer
