realiserad i mjukvara
English translation: software controllers
| 21:37 Apr 4, 2007 |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1software controllers Explanation: Better rewrite it slightly. The source is less than desirably phrased. Software controllers - as opposed to old, analogue (or ancient in this context) systems, hardly found in production any more. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2007-04-05 07:13:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- sugg: "..3 identical channels with/realized as software controllers, each in a programmable controller system...". You can probably improve it... It is very common that one has to do this type of rephrasing and exchanging of noun constructions for verb phrases and vice versa, when translating English <>Swedish |
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implemented in software Explanation: As Mårten suggests, in the old days you had to build analogue control systems in hardware - there was no alternative. But now with electronics it is possible to implement some things in software. Somebody once gave me a good example of this process. 30 years ago, telephones were fairly primitive. When you replaced the receiver, a signal was sent to the telephone exchange. But it was all too easy to replace it badly, causing the switches to bounce -- and send several signals to the telephone exchange. That confused the telephone exchange no end. There were two possible solutions. You could design a complicated mechanical device that would absorb the bounces -- doing it in hardware. Alternatively you could do it in software -- have a small electronic circuit that detected the first bounce, but then ignored anything else for half a second or so. This achieve the same effect as the hardware solution -- preventing unwanted bounces being sent back to the telephone exchange. The software implementation was simpler, cheaper, more robust. A good example of " implementing in software", and I think that is what is meant here. |
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