公开(公告)号：US06615285B1

公开(公告)日：2003-09-02

申请号：US09198098

申请日：1998-11-23

申请人： Alex Schafranek ,  Keith Elden Strege

发明人： Alex Schafranek ,  Keith Elden Strege

IPC分类号： G06F1314

CPC分类号： G06F12/0661

摘要： A method and apparatus are disclosed for dynamically determining a bus address that uniquely identifies a hardware component on a common bus. 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. The address space is logically divided into two ranges, namely, a first range of addresses referred to as the common access addresses, and a second range of addresses referred to as the assigned addresses. One address is reserved for the primary node that is responsible for assigning addresses, such as the hardware controller. Thus, each hardware component communicates with the hardware controller on one of the common access addresses to request a channel, and thereafter communicates on an assigned address, once assigned by the hardware controller. Collisions between multiple hardware components on the common access channels are minimized by assigning multiple channels.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于动态地确定唯一地标识公共总线上的硬件组件的总线地址的方法和装置。 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。 地址空间在逻辑上分为两个范围，即被称为公共接入地址的第一地址范围，以及被称为分配地址的第二地址范围。 一个地址为负责分配地址的主节点保留，如硬件控制器。 因此，每个硬件组件在公共访问地址之一上与硬件控制器进行通信，以请求信道，然后在由硬件控制器分配的情况下在分配的地址上进行通信。 公共访问通道上的多个硬件组件之间的冲突通过分配多个通道来最小化。