Telegraphy – Systems – Printing
Patent
1977-07-11
1978-06-27
Stewart, David L.
Telegraphy
Systems
Printing
178 50, H04J 600
Patent
active
040976955
ABSTRACT:
An asynchronous, addressable multiplex system comprises a master station in parallel communication with a number of slave stations. Both the master and slave stations employ independently clocked UAR/T's (universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter) circuits for simultaneous data receiving and transmitting, the UAR/T's communicating directly with one another. The master station includes means for formatting data to be transmitted by its UAR/T into message blocks each several bytes long and intended for a particular slave station whose address is encoded only in the first byte of the block. The message blocks are transmitted separated from one another by gaps which are two bytes long. Each slave station receives all master station message blocks and has means for recognizing the gaps and for then comparing the address in the first byte thereafter with an assigned slave station address. If the addresses correspond, the entire message block is accepted by the slave station. Only in response to a message block being accepted, return message blocks are transmitted by the slave stations UAR/T's to the master station UAR/T, such transmission being limited to an interval defined by an accepted message block and the gap therefollowing, no other return message source identification being required by the master station.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3804986 (1974-04-01), Wakamatsu
patent: 4000378 (1976-12-01), Caplan
Grace Alan G. V.
Wong Janet C.
Fowler Allan R.
Stewart David L.
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