公开(公告)号：US06493777B1

公开(公告)日：2002-12-10

申请号：US09396938

申请日：1999-09-15

申请人： Paula M. Eby ,  Keith E. Strege

发明人： Paula M. Eby ,  Keith E. Strege

IPC分类号： G06F1300

CPC分类号： H04L12/40169 ,  G06F11/006 ,  H04L12/40019 ,  H04L12/417 ,  H04L12/42 ,  H04L12/423

摘要： A method for dynamically reconfiguring control of a data bus when an initial device acting as a bus master fails or become inoperative. Each device connected to the data bus checks for the logical address of either its next higher or next lower neighbor; and the initial device acting as bus master is arbitrarily assigned the highest or lowest available logical address respectively. In either instance, the logically next lower or logically next higher device, respectively, may see a device at a logical address that is lower or higher than its own, thereby indicating that the initial device acting as bus master has become inoperative. Thereafter, the next available device able to act as bus master promotes itself to act as bus master, including reassigning itself to the highest or lowest available logical address, respectively.

摘要翻译： 当用作总线主机的初始设备故障或不起作用时，动态地重新配置数据总线的控制方法。 连接到数据总线的每个设备检查其下一个较高或下一个较低邻居的逻辑地址; 作为总线主机的初始设备分别任意分配最高或最低可用逻辑地址。 在任一情况下，逻辑上下一个较低或逻辑上的下一个更高的设备可以分别看到处于低于或高于其自身的逻辑地址的设备，从而指示充当总线主站的初始设备已经变得不起作用。 此后，能够充当总线主控器的下一个可用器件可以自己作为总线主机，包括分别重新分配到最高或最低可用逻辑地址。

公开(公告)号：US06442640B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-27

申请号：US09198289

申请日：1998-11-23

申请人： Paula M. Eby ,  Harvey Rubin ,  Michael Ralph Simmons ,  Keith Elden Strege

发明人： Paula M. Eby ,  Harvey Rubin ,  Michael Ralph Simmons ,  Keith Elden Strege

IPC分类号： G06F1338

CPC分类号： G06F12/0661

摘要： A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically determining system configuration information, including the sector, carrier frequency and bus assignment of each hardware component installed on equipment, such as a cell station. In an illustrative cell station implementation, each cell station includes a hardware controller that communicates on a common bus with a plurality of hardware components. When each cell station is powered up or reset, each hardware component reads an identification value (or a portion thereof) that has some physical significance from a backplane on which the hardware component is installed. The identification information obtained from the backplane is used to derive a bus address that uniquely identifies each hardware component on the common bus. In addition, the identification information contains information that describes the hardware component and how the component is located within the cell station. In the illustrative embodiment, the identification value identifies the carrier frequency, frame, sector number (such as &agr;, &bgr;, &ggr;), unit type and unit number associated with the hardware component. The hardware component can provide information to the hardware controller that allows the hardware controller to generate a map of the hardware components located within the cell and determine their interconnection.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于自动确定系统配置信息的方法和装置，包括安装在诸如蜂窝站的设备上的每个硬件部件的扇区，载波频率和总线分配。 在说明性的小区站实现中，每个小区站包括在公共总线上与多个硬件组件进行通信的硬件控制器。 当每个单元站被加电或复位时，每个硬件组件从其上安装硬件组件的背板读取具有一些物理意义的标识值（或其一部分）。 从背板获得的识别信息用于导出唯一地标识公共总线上的每个硬件组件的总线地址。 此外，识别信息包含描述硬件组件以及组件如何位于小区站内的信息。 在说明性实施例中，识别值识别与硬件组件相关联的载波频率，帧，扇区号（例如α，β，γ），单元类型和单元号。 硬件组件可以向硬件控制器提供信息，允许硬件控制器生成位于单元内的硬件组件的映射并确定其互连。