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Structured modeling, 273–274 System evaluation:
Structured neural networks, 799 algorithmic effectiveness of, 294
Structured text (ST), 690, 693 behavioral/human factors, 294–295
Subdominant poles, 335, 337 as design phase, 291–292
Successive approximation (SA), 811–813 efficacy, 295–296
Suction pyrometer probes, 151 methodology/criteria for, 293–294
Summer op amp, 844 test instruments for, 296
Summing amplifiers, 494 System graph, 311, 312
Superposition, 367 System integrators, 680
Superposition, principle of, 315 System-level architecting, 265
Supervisory control computers, 445–447 System relations, 313–314
Surface micromachining, 865–866, 870, Systems engineering, 257–285, 296–298
872 central role of information in, 284–285
Surface temperature measurement, 151 conditions for use of, 258–259
Surface wound, 548 49-element two-dimensional framework
Surveys, 270 for, 264–265
functional definition of, 261
SVFB, see State-variable feedback
information processing by humans/
Swirlmeter, 180–181
Switches, 142–143, 497 organizations, 278–282
interpretation, 282–284
Switching amplifiers, 569
issue analysis, 273–278
Synchro control transformers (synchros),
389, 390 issue formulation, 267–273
Synchronous serial data transfer, 852, 853 life cycle/functional elements of, 260–
266
Synectics, 270 as management technology, 257–260
System acquisition, 266 methodology/methods of, 267–285
Systematic errors, 10
objectives of, 266–267
System buses, 682
results attainable from, 259
System definition matrix, 272 seven-step framework for, 264
System design, 285–296
System/sensor interactions, 132
characteristics of effective, 286, 296–
‘‘Systems on a chip,’’ 870
297 System synthesis, 267, 269
detailed design/integration/testing/
implementation phase of, 290–291
development of aids for, 288–293 T
evaluation phase of, 291–296 Tachometers, 390, 391, 404, 594
leadership requirements for, 293
Takeoff points, 457
operational deployment phase, 292–293
Tanner Tools, 869
operational environments/decision Target feedback loop, 786–787
situation models, 287 Tchebyshev filters, 194–196
preliminary conceptual design/ TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/
architecting phase of, 289–290 Internet Protocol), 232
purposes of, 285–287 TCSG, see Technical Committee on Strain
requirements specification phase of, Gages
288–289 T-distribution, 27
System disturbance errors, 132 Teaching points, 714
System equations, 732, 740–743 Teach pendant, 711–714
continuous-time, 732, 740–741 Technical Committee on Strain Gages
discrete-time, 741–743 (TCSG), 80, 81
System error analysis, 230, 231 Technical societies, 80, 81