Electrical circuit with physical layer diagnostics system
AssigneePepperl + Fuchs GmbH
InventorsRenato Kitchener, Gunther Rogoll, Steffen Graber
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Abstract
An electrical circuit has a power supply, one or more devices and a diagnostics system. The diagnostics system includes a monitoring means adapted to monitor physical layer characteristics of the electrical circuit, a database containing circuit design data for the electrical circuit, and comparator means adapted to diagnose the status of the monitored physical layer characteristics of the electrical circuit by comparing them with the circuit design data.
Claims13
An electrical circuit comprising a power supply, one or more devices and a diagnostics system, in which the diagnostics system comprises monitoring means adapted to monitor physical layer characteristics of the electrical circuit, a database containing circuit design data for the electrical circuit, and comparator means adapted to diagnose the status of the monitored physical layer characteristics of the electrical circuit by comparing them with the circuit design data.
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