Abstract:
A communication network having a plurality of branches, each composed of two transmission lines, utilizes a miltiple access data transmission system. A plurality of individual user stations are connected to the branches. The branches are interconnected via a plurality of nodes so as to form an interconnected system of all of the user stations. A synchronizing word generator is centrally disposed within the network for periodically transmitting synchronizing words. At the end of each of the branches, there is connected a reflection free sink which only transfers the synchronizing words between the two lines of the branch. Each of the user stations has circuitry for dividing the interval between two successive synchronizing words into n equal time slots and for transmitting a data block signal within a free time slot.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a framing control circuit for a frame synchronization system. The circuit includes a sense circuit having a first integrator with a relatively long time constant and a first amplitude comparator to detect an out-ofsynchronization condition, and a search circuit having a second integrator with a relativeyly short time constant, a second amplitude comparator and a third amplitude comparator to detect an in-synchronization condition. The third amplitude comparator produces a high output and a mode flip flop having its ''''1'''' input coupled to the first comparator produces a high output on its ''''1'''' output when an out-of-synchronization condition is present. The simultaneous presence of these two signals activates the search logic of the frame synchronization system. The ''''0'''' input of the flip flop is coupled to the second comparator and produces a high output on its ''''0'''' output when an insynchronization condition is present. A diode is coupled between the ''''0'''' output of the flip flop and the input of the first integrator, said diode being rendered conductive when the ''''0'''' output is low. This diode conduction will reset the first ingegrator to a reference operating level which ensures full use of the time constant thereof and, hence, better protection against accidental phase shift (loss of synchronization) due to a short fade.
Abstract:
A framing control circuit for a frame synchronization system employing one integrator for both the sense and search modes rather than a separate integrator for each of the sense and search modes. A voltage controlled amplitude control circuit is disposed at the input to the integrator. The control signal for the control circuit is produced by a bistable device coupled to the output of the integrator. A low binary control signal, indicating a sense mode, provides a relatively low amplitude input signal to the integrator and, hence, an effective long time constant for the integrator. A high binary control signal, indicating a search mode, provides a relatively large amplitude input signal to the integrator and, hence, an effective short time constant for the integrator.
Abstract:
A time-division signaling system employing a transmitter and a receiver which communicate in recurrent operating cycles over a common transmission medium. The transmitter is contructed to transmit during an operating cycle time-spaced interleaved indexing and signaling voltage pulses which differ in respective maximum voltage levels. Discrimination between these two different kinds of pulses at the receiver is made on the basis of a comparison of their respective maximum voltage levels with a reference voltage level which has been generated by preceding pulses. The system includes circuitry which assures synchronization between the transmitter and receiver; and a modification of the system further includes circuitry which prevents the receiver from producing a responsive output to any signaling pulse which is received at the time that the transmitter and the receiver are out of synchronization.
Abstract:
In a time-division multiplex delta-modulation communication system, a frame of the multiplexed signal is composed of a plurality of subframes larger in number than the multiplexed transmission channels by at least one and defined by control bits, one of which is allotted to frame synchronization and the remainder of which are allotted to channel monitoring and the like. A respective one of the control bits is transmitted every frame period while the respective channel information is transmitted every subframe period.
Abstract:
In transmitting a digital signal, e.g. a digital signal on a PCM transmission line which is asynchronous with a clock signal, a first and a second state pulse trains respectively corresponding to one of the binary states of the digital signal are utilized and the output pulse trains of the asynchronous digital signal are represented by corresponding mode pulse trains in respective time slots. When the state of the pulse train of the asynchronous digital signal changes an indicating pulse representing the time of transition of the state of the asynchronous digital signal is inserted in a time slot following the time slot in which the state has changed. On the receiving terminal the mode pulse trains are constructed by utilizing the framing pulse as the reference signal.