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Starting a field device

US8972786B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

VEGA Grieshaber KG · DE

Inventors

Andreas Isenmann · Lenzkirch, DE
Martin Gaiser · Alpirsbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 18, 2012
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 18, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B2219/23307
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

During starting of a field device for pressure measurement, flow measurement and/or fill level measurement, which field device including a memory that includes a boot memory region in which a boot function is stored, and an operating memory region in which an operating function is stored, the following steps are carried out: carrying out the boot function; determining whether a memory check of the operating memory region is to be carried out; carrying out a memory check of the operating memory region when it has been determined that a memory check is to be carried out; and carrying out the operating function.

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