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US 2004/0117537 A1Published application
Multiplex transmission system with in-circuit addressing
AssigneeAMI Semiconductor Belgium BVBA
InventorGeert Maria Marcel Vandensande
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AssigneeAMI Semiconductor Belgium BVBA
InventorGeert Maria Marcel Vandensande
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The present invention is related to a transmission system for sending digital data on a digital bus (1), to which are connected a number of master and slave modules. The system is characterized by the fact that a number of modules may comprise two connectors (20, 21) to said bus, and a switch (22) or switches (52, 53), allowing the interruption of said bus. This design allows an address setting procedure to take place, before starting normal operation. During this initialization, the addresses of the modules are set by consecutively closing the switches, and setting the address. Every time a switch is closed in one module, the following module can receive its address. The invention is related to several embodiments of the system allowing this procedure, and to the method of initializing such a system.
A transmission system for transmitting digital data in a time domain multiplexing mode, comprising a digital data bus (1), and a plurality of modules (31;
A module intended to be coupled to a digital data bus (1) whereon digital data is transported in a time domain multiplexing mode, characterized in that said module comprises two connectors (20, 21), so that data passing through said bus (1) enters said module through one connector and leaves said module through the other, said module further comprising a first interruption device (22;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.