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News Release from: SPLat Controls | Subject: PIDassist
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 October 2003
Free simulator program simplifies PID
control
SPLat has developed a tutorial and companion simulator program for users wishing to implement PID (proportional, integral, derivative) control functions.
SPLat Controls is a manufacturer of embedded programmable controllers who supply OEM users worldwide with off the shelf and custom control solutions An important plank in the company's mission is to provide educational and training tools to help its customers, who are often not electronics experts, get the best possible use out of its products
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SPLat MMi99 is a programmable controller targeted at OEM embedded control applications.
In keeping with this philosophy SPLat has developed a tutorial and companion simulator program for users wishing to implement PID (proportional, integral, derivative) control functions.
The program is called PIDassist, and simulates a controller and a target process.
It can also be used as a data acquisition tool for characterising the process, and also includes an automatic code generator that produces the SPLat program code required to implement the control function.
The tutorial is located in the online SPLat knowledge base, and contains a thorough but non-mathematical treatment of the theory of PID control, plus a step by step procedure for implementing a control system.
Loop optimisation is based on the Ziegler-Nichols continuous cycling method.
The tutorial is suitable as a component of a university-level engineering course.
To access the tutorial and download a free copy of PIDassist, go to the SPLat website.
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