Cselt-centro Studi E Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.a.

Giovanni Perucca

Piero Belforte

Flavio Melindo

Giancarlo Guaschino

Girolamo De Vincentiis

Two processors UP1 and UP2, designed to test the operation of a pair of switching networks IN1 and IN2 in a telecommunication system through respective sets of peripheral interface units P11 etc. and P21 etc., are interconnected for parallel operation and are each linked with both sets of peripheral units via branched output and input multiples carrying outgoing and incoming messages. Each set of peripheral units is served by a respective bus bar BUS1, BUS2 connectable at one end, via an outgoing multiplexer MX12, MX22, to one of the branches of either output multiple 2, 3 and at the other end, via an incoming multiplexer MX11, MX21, to one of the branches of either input multiple 12, 13. The outgoing messages are also delivered, in parallel, to a pair of decision networks LS1, LS2 controlling the associated multiplexers MX12, MX22 in response to switching criteria obtained from a pair of intercommunicating synchronization circuits SN1, SN2 which are inserted in the two outgoing multiples upstream of their branching points. The sending of incoming messages from the peripheral units to the processors is preceded by access requests temporarily stored in parallel, under the control of a timing circuit BT, in a pair of buffer registers MT1 and MT2 respectively assigned to processors UP1 and UP2.

Dual testing system for supervising duplicated telecommunication

A processor in a telephone exchange, monitoring the activity of r subscriber lines having each an incoming and an outgoing channel allocated to them, emits during respective halves of any 8-bit time slot in a 32-time-slot frame a pair of m-bit addresses x, y for each subscriber initiating or engaged in a conversation, these addresses respectively identifying an outgoing channel of a first (e.g. calling) subscriber and an incoming channel of a second (e.g. called) subscriber to be placed once per frame in communication with each other by a PCM switching network. The addresses of incoming and outgoing channels issuing from the processor during each time slot are separated in a distributor, the addresses y being inscribed in stages of a storage network respectively assigned to the 32.sup.. 32.sup.. n channels identified by addresses x. The storage network consists of n random-access memories, one for each of n channel groups, divided into 32 sections of 32 stages each for as many 32-channel families. Each of 32 scanning intervals composed of n phases, occurring within a time slot, is reserved for the successive readout of homothetic stages in a respective set of n corresponding sections of all the memories, the set being divided into two subsets respectively scanned in the presence of relatively staggered enabling pulses also spanning n phases each whereby the readout of each subset starts after the beginning and terminates before the end of the corresponding enabling pulse.

Interface unit for TDM switching component of PCM telecommunication

A switching station for a telecommunication system, operating with pulse-code modulation, serves a multiplicity of incoming and outgoing PCM channels each consisting of a succession of 8-bit words cyclically interleaved with the words of 31 other channels in an assigned time slot of a 32-channel frame, 32 such frames being received and transmitted over as many signal paths forming a frame group. There are n incoming frame groups and n outgoing frame groups with synchronized bit phases in all the spatially separated channels thereof. A central processor controls the concurrent storage of all the incoming bits of a given phase in n pairs of 16-section input memories, each memory section consisting of 8 stages for the bits of a respective word from an incoming channel on a receiving signal path. During each time slot all the bits of each stored word are read out in parallel from the corresponding input-memory section into a similar section of an output memory from which they can be serially fed to a transmitting signal path during a period allocated to a selected outgoing channel. Thus, any incoming channel can communicate with any outgoing channel in the course of each frame.

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Giovanni Perucca