What is a Synthetic Instrument?
Engineers often confuse synthetic measurement systems with other sorts of systems. This confusion isn’t because synthetic instrumentation is an inherently complex concept, or because it’s vaguely defined, but rather because there are lots of companies trying to sell their old nonsynthetic instruments with a synthetic spin.
If all you have to sell are pigs, and people want chickens, gluing feathers on your pigs and taking them to market might seem to be an attractive option to some people. If enough people do this, and feathered pigs, goats, cows, as well as turkeys and pigeons are flooding the market, being sold as if they were chickens, real confusion can arise among city folk regarding what a chicken ...
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