公开(公告)号：EP0100108A3

公开(公告)日：1986-08-27

申请号：EP83200430

申请日：1983-03-28

申请人： Rothstein, Robert

发明人： Rothstein, Robert

IPC分类号： G06F15/20 ,  G06F09/42

CPC分类号： G16H40/63 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G06F19/3418

摘要： @ A microprocessor-controlled interface for permitting any digital host computer to receive serial digital data from any instrument wherein (a) the time at which digital data from the instrument is to enter the host computer and (b) the logical structure of the digital data entering the host computer are controlled by instructions from the host computer to the microprocessor and wherein (a) physical formatting incompatibilities between the host computer and the instrument and (b) the communicating of prohibited characters from the instrument to the host computer and vice versa are avoided. The timing control and logical structure of the digital data are effected by directing data from the instrument into a scratchpad memory, which is divided into records pursuant to instructions from the host computer, the contents of the scratchpad memory being sent to the host computer upon a corresponding instruction therefrom. A terminal for communicating with the host computer and the instrument may be included. Physical formatting discrepancies are avoided by translating inputs to the interface into a common physical format and translating outputs from the interface into the physical format of the instrument, host computer, or terminal which is receiving such outputs. Because about 90% of all current digital devices are formatted in a manner translatable by a selected one of three translator elements, a small number of interfaces formatted for a specific host computer (and terminal) can be used with a vast number of different instruments by accounting only for the instrument physical format and associated prohibited characters. Instructions, selected from a set of distinct instructions, which are sent from the computer to the microprocessor determine (a) whether a terminal-host computer, instrument-host computer, or terminal-instrument communication channel is to be open, (b) whether all channels are to be closed, and (c) when other communication transfer operations are to be executed. Terminal-host computer communications can occur at least substantially simultaneously with the directing of digital data from the instrument to the scratchpad memory.

摘要翻译： 用于允许任何数字主机从任何仪器接收串行数字数据的微处理器控制接口，其中（a）来自仪器的数字数据进入主计算机的时间和（b）数字数据输入的逻辑结构 主计算机由从主计算机到微处理器的指令控制，并且其中（a）在主计算机和仪器之间的物理格式化不兼容性以及（b）禁止的字符从仪器到主计算机的通信以及反之亦然 。 数字数据的定时控制和逻辑结构通过将数据从仪器引导到暂存器存储器中来实现，该暂存器存储器根据来自主计算机的指令被分成记录，暂存器存储器的内容在一个 相应的指令。 可以包括用于与主机和仪器进行通信的终端。 通过将接口的输入转换为通用物理格式并将接口的输出转换为正在接收这种输出的仪器，主机或终端的物理格式来避免物理格式化差异。

公开(公告)号：EP0100108A2

公开(公告)日：1984-02-08

申请号：EP83200430.3

申请日：1983-03-28

申请人： Rothstein, Robert

发明人： Rothstein, Robert

IPC分类号： G06F15/20 ,  G06F9/42

CPC分类号： G16H40/63 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G06F19/3418

摘要： @ A microprocessor-controlled interface for permitting any digital host computer to receive serial digital data from any instrument wherein (a) the time at which digital data from the instrument is to enter the host computer and (b) the logical structure of the digital data entering the host computer are controlled by instructions from the host computer to the microprocessor and wherein (a) physical formatting incompatibilities between the host computer and the instrument and (b) the communicating of prohibited characters from the instrument to the host computer and vice versa are avoided. The timing control and logical structure of the digital data are effected by directing data from the instrument into a scratchpad memory, which is divided into records pursuant to instructions from the host computer, the contents of the scratchpad memory being sent to the host computer upon a corresponding instruction therefrom. A terminal for communicating with the host computer and the instrument may be included. Physical formatting discrepancies are avoided by translating inputs to the interface into a common physical format and translating outputs from the interface into the physical format of the instrument, host computer, or terminal which is receiving such outputs. Because about 90% of all current digital devices are formatted in a manner translatable by a selected one of three translator elements, a small number of interfaces formatted for a specific host computer (and terminal) can be used with a vast number of different instruments by accounting only for the instrument physical format and associated prohibited characters. Instructions, selected from a set of distinct instructions, which are sent from the computer to the microprocessor determine (a) whether a terminal-host computer, instrument-host computer, or terminal-instrument communication channel is to be open, (b) whether all channels are to be closed, and (c) when other communication transfer operations are to be executed. Terminal-host computer communications can occur at least substantially simultaneously with the directing of digital data from the instrument to the scratchpad memory.

摘要翻译： 用于允许任何数字主机计算机从任何仪器worin接收串行数字数据（A）时的微处理器控制的接口在从仪器的数字数据是进入主计算机和（b）的数字数据的逻辑结构进入 主计算机通过指令从主计算机到主计算机和仪器和（b）从仪器到主计算机，并且反之亦然禁止使用的字符的通信之间的微处理器和worin的（a）物理格式化incompatabilities控制避免 ， 的数字数据的定时控制和逻辑结构是由从仪器引导数据到暂存存储器来实现，所有这些都被划分成根据来自主计算机的指令的记录，暂存存储器中的内容被在一个发送给主机计算机 从对应的指令存在。 一种用于与主计算机和仪器的通信终端可以被包括。 物理格式化的差异是由平移输入到接口到一个共同的物理格式和从所述接口输出转换到仪器中，主计算机，或全部终端正在接收搜索输出的物理格式避免。