New Developments in the International Instrumentation Industry

As the pioneer of the information industry, the instrumentation industry is rapidly focusing on the technologies of computers and microprocessors. Image display, network media, systems, and automation control theory are key technologies\support. Although the development of high technology has led to the upgrading of instrumentation products to intelligent instrumentation, it has become a large product group in the information industry. Instrumentation products are rapidly moving toward intelligence, networking, miniaturization, and virtualization.

Networking As the automation and intelligence of measurement equipments have been improved, networking of multiple instruments has been promoted, and new technologies such as virtual instruments and three-dimensional multimedia have begun to be applied. Networking of instrumentation products is mainly attributed to fieldbus technology. Fieldbus-based FCS (Fieidbus Control System) will replace DCS as the protagonist of the control system, Internet and Intranet technology will also enter the control field, and the networked system will infiltrate everything from production to management to operation. Through the Internet, instrument users can exchange information and browse from one place to another. Vendors can directly communicate with users in other places. They can complete tasks such as trouble diagnosis of equipment, instruct users to repair or exchange new equipment, improve data, and upgrade software. Well-known foreign instrument manufacturers are actively researching and developing new types of networked intelligent measurement devices. For example, P&S DataCom (Microchip) has developed a patented universal network communication controller through years of research and development of communication methods between smart devices and networks. The chip, WebChipTM, provides a simple, low-cost, complete smart device network connectivity solution.

The intelligentization of intelligent instrumentation products is mainly attributed to the development and application of microprocessors and artificial intelligence technologies.

Due to the advancement of microelectronics technology, instrumentation products are further integrated with microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSP chip-level embedded systems, and embedded software. The digitization and intelligence of instrumentation have been continuously improved. Taking the DSPC concept proposed by Texas Instruments as an example, the DSP chip is used as the core, and the entire application system is provided with advanced mixed-signal circuits, ASIC circuits, components, and development tools. The current DSP production process is shifting from 0.35μm to 0.25μm, 0.18μm, and 0.13μm, and it can reach 0.075μm in 2005. By 2010, the integration of DSP chips will increase by 11 times, and 500 million chips will be integrated on a single chip. Transistors.

The miniaturization of miniaturized instrumentation products is mainly attributed to new ultra-large-scale integration (VLSI) devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), wafer-scale integration (WSI) and multi-chip modules (MCM), etc.; micro-control technology and micro-machining technology Micro-detection technology, micro-light source, micro-optical optical system, micro-sensors, etc., reduce the volume of instrumentation products and increase their accuracy.

The virtualization of virtual instrumentation products is mainly attributed to virtual reality technology. It is a multi-dimensional sensory environment that is generated in whole or in part by a computer. It generates various sensory information for participants, enables them to have an immersive feeling, and can experience, accept, and understand objective things in the objective world, deepening the concept. And build new ideas and ideas.