A two-wire field-mounted process device with multiple isolated channels includes
a channel that can be an input channel or an output channel. The given input or
output channel can couple to multiple sensors or actuators, respectively. The process
device is wholly powered by the two-wire process control loop. The process device
includes a controller adapted to measure one or more characteristics of sensors
coupled to an input channel and to control actuators coupled to an output channel.
The controller can be further adapted to execute a user generated control algorithm
relating process input information with process output commands. The process device
also includes a loop communicator that is adapted to communicate over the two-wire loop.