122-28176 Parallax Inc, 122-28176 Datasheet - Page 8

• Manufacturer Part Number: 122-28176
• Description: GUIDE STUDENT PROCESS CONTROL
• Manufacturer: Parallax Inc

Specifications of 122-28176

• Accessory Type: Manual
• Product: Microcontroller Accessories
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Contains lead / RoHS non-compliant
• For Use With/related Products: Propeller Education (PE) Kit
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant, Contains lead / RoHS non-compliant

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is not the “muscle.” Actual applications require the microcontroller to read and control a
wide variety of input and output (I/O) devices. The experiments include information on
proper I/O signal conditioning.
The process control technician must have a good
understanding of the electronics required to get proper input voltages into the
microcontroller from switches, contacts, and sensors as well as understand how to
interface it to high-power output elements through the use of relays and power
semiconductors.
After working with the sample control scenarios in the book, students quickly find
themselves considering the countless automated control applications all around them.
The most exciting aspect of this Process Control text is its ability to give you the tools to
apply control theory, flowchart diagramming, and input/output signal conditioning to
your own real-world applications.
Martin Hebel and Will Devenport
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Electronic Systems Technologies
http://www.siu.edu/~isat/est
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Editor’s Note: Process Control is a newly written text covering similar subject matter to
Industrial Control, which it now replaces in the Stamps In Class educational series.
Process Control is an advanced book, and we strongly recommend that students first
learn the electronics and PBASIC programming concepts introduced in What’s a
Microcontroller? – the gateway to the Stamps in Class series.
EDUCATOR RESOURCES
Process Control has a supplemental set of exercises and solutions in an editable Word
document that are made available only to teachers. These materials and other Stamps in
Class resources can be obtained by joining the free, private Parallax Educators forum.
Both students and teachers are invited to join the public Parallax Stamps in Class forum,
where they can discuss their experiences using Process Control or any other Stamps in
Class text in the classroom. Students are encouraged to come here for assistance with