The paper describes a microprocessor-based lineariser module which automatically computes the coefficients, offset, and gain settings required for an integral wideband polynomial lineariser. An iterative technique is used whereby the aggregate residual-squared error between the normalised input data and the generated 4th-order polynomial converges to a minimum. Weighting factors are included to give a curve-fitting accuracy approximating to a constant percentage of reading.
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