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Multiplexing system setting through mask registers

US4961189A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 23, 1989
Grant dateOct 2, 1990
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Expiry dateAug 23, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04J3/047
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Data multiplexing system for dispatching an input serial bit stream onto a plurality of ports, or multiplexing the data bits received from a plurality of ports as a serial bit stream. The system mainly comprises for each port, a mask register (14) loaded with a N-bit mask work wherein bits set to 1 indicate which bits of an aggregate register (10 or 56) are to be loaded or to be transferred, and a scan counter (20 or 46) starting being incremented at a high frequency at each transition of a first category, up or down, of a clock circuit (12 or 40), until the mask bit corresponding to the scan counter contents is a bit 1, whereby the corresponding cell of the aggregate register is transmitted to the associated port or loaded with the bit received at this time by the associated port.

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