Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1986-03-10
1988-10-18
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
340310A, H04J 302, H04M 1104
Patent
active
047792647
ABSTRACT:
A multiplex system includes a master controller and a plurality of remote stations which are connected together by a cable. The cable is a twin co-ax cable which includes data and clock conductors which are surrounded by power and ground conductors. The power and ground conductors are capacitively coupled such that the power conductor simultaneously transmits power and provides an effective shield. The master controller includes a microcomputer which in turn includes an UART. The UART is used to transmit command bits to the remote stations while the CPU reads response bits from the remote stations in order to allow response bits to be interleaved in time with command bits. In one embodiment, the command bits are used to strobe row conductors of a keyboard and the response bits are used to monitor column conductors of the keyboard to allow a keyboard to be controlled by the master controller 20 in a simple and efficient manner. In the preferred embodiment an integration counter is used to decode response signals such as those from a keyboard and the integration counter is incremented when the desired signal is obtained and decremented when it is not. In this way the state of the signal can be determined even in an extremely noisy environment.
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AMP Incorporated
LaRue Adrian J.
Olms Douglas W.
Scutch III Frank M.
Wolstoncroft Bruce J.
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