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Processor for a TDMA burst modem

US4232197A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 25, 1978
Grant dateNov 4, 1980
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Expiry dateAug 25, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B7/2046
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides a processor for interfacing a TDMA burst modem (40), which transmits and receives bursts of information at high data rates in assigned time slots, and slow speed terminal processing equipment. The present processor comprises circuitry (50) capable of detecting frame or superframe markers in a received sequence and regenerating such markers, after initiation, at the normal interval for such markers despite false alarms or missed marker signals. Other circuitry (53, 57 and 52, 62) causes a memory (48, 56) to directly output a burst of information during an assigned time slot to the modem (40) and directly store received information from modem (40) during a predetermined interval which is designed to start before and end after the expected arrival of an assigned burst. Slower processing equipment is then used to find and process the burst in the stored information.

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