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Section 11. Glossary
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Term: datalogger support software
Campbell Scientific software that includes at least the following functions:
o Datalogger comms
o Downloading programs
o Clock setting
o
Retrieval of measurement data
See Datalogger Support Software — Overview
(p. 97)
and the appendix
Datalogger Support Software — List
(p. 663)
for more information.
Term: data point
A data value which is sent to final-storage memory
(p. 583)
as the result of a
data-output processing instruction
(p. 579).
Strings of data points output at the
same time make up a record in a data table.
Term: data table
A concept that describes how data are organized in CR6 memory, or in files
that result from collecting data in CR6 memory. The fundamental data table
is created by the CRBasic program as a result of the DataTable() instruction
and resides in binary form in main-memory SRAM. See the table CR6
Memory Allocation
(p. 490).
The data table structure also resides in the
data
cache
(p. 578),
in discrete data files on the CPU:, USR:, CRD:, and USB:
memory drives, and in binary or ASCII files that result from collecting
final-storage memory with
datalogger support software
(p. 579).
Term: data output interval
Alias: output interval
The interval between each write of a
record
(p. 597)
to a final-storage memory
data table.
Term: data output processing instructions
CRBasic instructions that process data values for eventual output to final-data
memory. Examples of output-processing instructions include Totalize() ,
Maximize() , Minimize() , and Average() . Data sources for these
instructions are values or strings in variable memory. The results of
intermediate calculations are stored in data output processing memory
(p. 580)
to await the output trigger. The ultimate destination of data generated by
data output processing instructions is usually final-storage memory, but the
CRBasic program can be written to divert to variable memory by the
CRBasic program for further processing. The transfer of processed