Automatic line termination in distributed industrial process con

Details Automatic line termination in distributed industrial process con Automatic line termination in distributed industrial process con

1980-10-31

1983-08-30

Malzahn, David H.

Excavating

371 11, 370 16, G06F 1100, H04B 1700

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044020821

ABSTRACT:
A control system for controlling an industrial process includes a plurality of remotely located process control units (remotes) each coupled to an associated input/output device(s) and adapted to communicate with one another through a dual channel communications link. Digital information in the form of data and control information blocks is transmitted between remotes with the blocks transmitted twice on each channel of the dual channel communications link. The destination remote checks the block validity on one of the dual channels and, if valid, responds with an acknowledgement signal (ACK), and, if invalid, tests the blocks on the other, alternate channel and then responds with an acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement signal (NAK) depending on whether the data blocks tested on the alternate channel are found valid or invalid. Each remote in the system is adapted to test the communication integrity of both channels of the communication link between it and its immediately adjacent remotes in the system and provide a line-balanced termination impedance in the event one or both communication channels are degraded or interrupted. The system thereby provides high overall operating efficiency since the remotes maintain a system-like integrity even if one of the communication links is interrupted by automatically inserting a line-matching termination impedance to prevent or minimize problems incident to unterminated interrupted or degraded communication links, these problems including loss of signal strength in the transmission line and reflected signals.

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