Transceiver for multi-drop local area networks

Details Transceiver for multi-drop local area networks Transceiver for multi-drop local area networks

1984-03-06

1986-06-24

Bookbinder, Marc E.

Excavating

375 8, 375 42, 375 99, G08C 2502, G06F 1100, H04L 2706

Patent

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045970823

ABSTRACT:
A multi-drop local area network utilizes alternating current power lines as a transmission channel. Identical transceivers are used as a master and as up to 255 slaves. Each transceiver comprises modulator and demodulator units and a microprocessor control unit which may be connected to a host. The modulator and demodulator are connected to the alternating current power line through a high pass filter comprising a split bobbin, iron core transformer having an air gap which also provides impedance matching. The demodulator includes a clipper and analog circuitry providing a band pass filter and generating a square wave corresponding to the received carrier. A state machine acting as a digital filter produces a received carrier signal only when each half cycle of the carrier square wave is of the proper duration and the carrier signal has existed for slightly more than one half of the transmitted bit duration, which is a predetermined number of carrier cycles.
The microprocessors are programmed to provide for block ahead acknowledgment, alternate transmissions between master and slaves; each block message comprises an acknowledgment non-acknowledgment bit, a message sequence bit, a polling sequence bit, and a longitudinal redundancy check. The carrier frequency utilized lies in the range of 20 to 40 KHz and preferably within the range between 27 and 33 KHz for a power line transmission channel. Error free 1200 Baud transmission rates are achieved in full duplex. Higher carrier frequencies and transmission rates are possible over less noisy transmission channels such as wire pairs.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3757226 (1973-09-01), Stover

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