Vending machine dual bus architecture

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1998-03-27

2000-09-12

Horabik, Michael

Data processing: generic control systems or specific application

Specific application, apparatus or process

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700230, 36447901, 370364, G06F 1700

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061190535

ABSTRACT:
A vending machine operating system architecture connects vending machine peripherals of different communication standards to a main vending machine controller. One way to connect the two disparate buses is to use a UART device for each. An even more cost effective approach is to use a communications coprocessor (which is at least equivalent to a UART device) to which each of the two disparate buses is selectively connected by a multiplexer under the control of the main vending machine controller.

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A. Trumik, Controller and System for Vending Machine, Patent Abstracts of Japan (vol. 099, No. 003) of JP 10 340270A, Dec. 22, 1998.

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