What is a transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS)?
Each of the standards in the IEEE 1451 family defines a storage format for data pertinent to a transducer, to be stored in the transducer. This data is called the transducer electronic data sheet, or TEDS. In general, transducer identification and calibration data are contained in the TEDS. In the case of IEEE 1451.4, the memory is large enough to contain only packed numerical data, without any units, which account for substantial memory usage in the TEDS definitions of the other standards. A template therefore defines the significance of the stored data in a 1451.4 transducer. The template is resident in the system, which reads the TEDS and unpacks the data. For details on IEEE TEDS and templates, click here.
