XidML – Two Years On

ITC/USA 2006 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Second Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 23-26, 2006 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaIn 2004 ACRA CONTROL introduced XidML as a published standard for instrumentation definition via XML. After two years in the field, much feedback and two revisions, this paper outlines where the standard is now, some of the lessons learned and discusses some ideas for where next. XidML allows any package, message or frame to be defined including PCM, MIL-STD- 1553, Ethernet and storage formats, it is also used to define the settings for instrumentation as diverse as Analog to Digital modules, MIL-STD-1553 monitors, PCM encoders, recorders, bit-syncs, and decoms. Importantly it facilitates the EU range and data format to be defined for large parameter lists. The key elements in the standard are discussed along with some lessons learned.International Foundation for TelemeteringProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection