• Relay logic is a method of implementing combinational logic in electrical control circuits by using several electrical relays wired in a particular configuration...
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  • Ladder logic was originally a written method to document the design and construction of relay racks as used in manufacturing and process control. Each...
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    flexible, rugged and easily programmable controllers to replace hard-wired relay logic systems. Dick Morley, who invented the first PLC, the Modicon 084, for...
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    electromagnetic relays with relay logic, fluidic logic, pneumatic logic, optics, molecules, acoustics, or even mechanical or thermal elements. Logic gates can...
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    contacts. Relay logic is the predecessor of ladder logic, which is commonly used in programmable logic controllers. A mercury relay is a relay that uses...
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    Field-programmable gate array Formal verification Ladder logic Programmable logic controller Relay logic Sequential logic Tseytin transformation Savant, C.J. Jr.; Roden...
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    the relay, and in some case, taps on transformers. In some solid-state relays, a simple microprocessor does some of the relay logic, but the logic is fixed...
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    the beginning of a theoretical basis for understanding control theory. Relay logic was introduced with factory electrification, which underwent rapid adaption...
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    theorem, electric circuit analysis, magnetism, resonance, control relays, relay logic, semiconductor diodes, electron current flow, and much more. Smoothly...
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    title block and frame as other engineering drawings. Relay logic line diagrams, also called ladder logic diagrams, use another common standardized convention...
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    exchange in the floors below that combined the vital relay based interlocking logic and non-vital control logic in one place. Such advanced schemes would also...
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  • use the term "XOR" in the patent, but he implemented that operation in relay logic. In the example Vernam gave, the plaintext is A, encoded as "++---" in...
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    with one of the reeds latching the relay, and the other or others performing logic or memory functions. Most reed relays in the crossbar switching systems...
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    technology such as crossbar or reed relay, the register was often a system of analog electronics or even relay logic. The term "flash" or "hook flash" is...
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    for engineers and scientists Ladder logic, a language that simulates relay logic commonly used in programmable logic controllers MeVisLab, cross-platform...
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    tabulating run, counters could be assigned to a specific hole or, by using relay logic, to a combination of holes, e.g. to count married couples. If the card...
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    Early electrically powered computers constructed from switches and relay logic rather than vacuum tubes (thermionic valves) or transistors (from which...
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    full speed toward an obstruction. Another feature of the system was a relay-logic digital clock (dubbed the "digital crock") on the dispatch board, which...
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    given tabulating run counters were assigned specific holes or, using relay logic, combination of holes. Later designs led to a card with ten rows, each...
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    earlier, a rotor-based key generator called SIGCUM. It used electromechanical relays in its operation. Later, Bell informed the Signal Corps that they were able...
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    by electrical switching circuits. Eventually, vacuum tubes replaced relays for logic operations. Lee De Forest's modification of the Fleming valve in 1907...
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    an automobile plant. PLCs were programmed using ladder logic, a language simulating relay logic. Even today, PLCs, mechanical switches, and optical sensors...
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    electric relay logic was developed, it no longer became necessary for signalmen to operate control devices with any sort of mechanical logic at all. With...
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    more efficient. Electrification enabled sequential automation using relay logic. Henry Ford further revolutionized the factory concept in the early 20th...
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    addition. (The earlier IBM 601 and released in the same year IBM 602 used relay logic.) The IBM 603 was adapted as the arithmetic unit in the IBM Selective...
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  • system was notably ahead of its time in that its phase detector was a relay logic implementation of the transistor circuits for phase/frequency detectors...
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    acknowledgment (a wink) to go ahead with dial pulsing. This was done with relay logic and discrete electronics. These voltage changes on the trunk circuit...
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    conductors and ground return, which were analyzed in the exchange by relay logic. In 1968, the system was used in the UK, in a brief excursion from standards...
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    patents on the use of transformers for building digital logic circuits in place of relay logic beginning in 1947. A fully developed core system was patented...
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    -12 V. Transmission line logic levels of SDTRL circuits (C Level) were high: 1 V, low: -1 V. Relay circuits used either of two logic levels (T Level) high:...
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