Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1993-10-26
1994-11-01
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 655, H04L 122
Patent
active
053612493
ABSTRACT:
A fault tolerant communication arrangement, for switching parallel N-bit information among a plurality of stations, includes an M-bit crossbar switch, where M is greater than N by a number S of supernumerary or spare bit paths. At each station, an interface unit monitors for errors, and when an error is identified to a bit in the transmission path, routes the defective bit to one of the spare bit paths. All stations reroute data from the defective bit path to the same spare bit path. Error coding information is generated at the transmitting interface unit, and transmitted over some of the supernumerary bit paths, and when the number of defective bit paths reduces the number of available supernumerary bit paths to zero, the bit intensity of the error coding is reduced, to free additional supernumerary paths. In a system in which some of the stations include memory, a failure of a memory bit at a particular address is, in effect, a failure of that bit in an overall transmission path. A memory sparing map keeps track of defective locations, and routes bits to other, non-defective memory locations.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3603736 (1971-09-01), Morroll
patent: 4536870 (1985-08-01), Bovo et al.
Branco Richard G.
Monastra Edward J.
Trevito Leon
Martin Marietta Corp.
Meise William H.
Nieves C. A.
Olms Douglas W.
Vu Huy D.
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