Data Processing Device, Processor Core Array and Method for Characterizing Behavior of Equipment Under Observation

A computer-implemented method for operating a data processing device to characterize behavior properties of equipment under observation, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• selecting processor cores of a processor core array comprising two or more processor cores as a first processing stage and processor cores of the two or more processor cores as a second processing stage, according to an availability of the processor cores and according to a presence of equipment data values from an equipment under observation, wherein the processor cores of the first processing stage receive two or more equipment data values from the equipment under observation as input and provide two or more intermediate data values as output, according to two or more first numerical transfer functions, and wherein the processor cores of the second processing stage receive the two or more intermediate data values as input and provide behavior data as output values according to a second numerical transfer function;
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• processing input values, by the selected processor cores, based on numerical transfer functions to output values by implementing an input-to-output mapping based on a configuration obtained by a pre-processing of historic data from two or more master equipment and related to the behavior properties of the equipment under observation, wherein the output values predict future behavior properties of the equipment under observation.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of computer-executable instructions which when executed by at least one processor of a computer performs a method for controlling a data processing device to characterize behavior properties of equipment under observation, the method comprising:

• selecting processor cores of a processor core array comprising two or more processor cores as a first processing stage and processor cores of the two or more processor cores as a second processing stage, according to an availability of the processor cores and according to a presence of equipment data values from an equipment under observation, wherein the processor cores of the first processing stage receive two or more equipment data values from the equipment under observation as input and provide two or more intermediate data values as output, according to two or more first numerical transfer functions, and wherein the processor cores of the second processing stage receive the two or more intermediate data values as input and provide behavior data as output values according to a second numerical transfer function;
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• processing input values, by the selected processor cores, based on numerical transfer functions to output values by implementing an input-to-output mapping based on a configuration obtained by a pre-processing of historic data from two or more master equipment and related to the behavior properties of the equipment under observation, wherein the output values predict future behavior properties of the equipment under observation.