Throughout this series, we have explored several different ways to handle I/O in Studio 5000.
We started with the simplest possible approach:
Local:1:I.Data.0
Then we introduced:
Alias Tags
Individual Mapping
MOV
COP
CPS
UDTs
Digital I/O Processing
Analog Scaling
Analog Output Processing
Performance …
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