Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Takehiko Atsumi

Hiroyuki Ibe

Taro Shibagaki

Takeshi Ozeki

Sadao Tanikoshi

Osamu Kinoshita

Masayuki Takami

Hideki Ishibashi

Takako Mori

A digital signal exchange equipment is disclosed which is constructed of a combination of selector modules each constituted by a plurality of gate arrays as a parallel unit in a column direction. The respective gate array comprises a first gate for selecting one line from an n number of first input lines and connecting it to an output line, a second gate for selecting one line from an output line of the first gate and one second input line and connecting it to the second gate and a flip-flop for wave-shaping an output of the second gate and, at the same time, taking synchronization among the respective gate array. The selector module as set forth above is constructed of a semiconductor circuit device. When, in particular, a plurality of selector modules are combined together, they are arranged as a k-column/l-row array in which input bus lines are each connected to each common row and an n number of output lines are connected for each row to an n number of second input lines of the next-row selector module.

Digital signal exchange equipment

In a digital signal time-division multiplex apparatus according to the present invention, digital signals transmitted through a plurality of channels are converted into low-order section frame signals in response to sync signals by low-order section frame processing boards provided for their respective channels. The low-order section frame processing boards are arranged in parallel on a mother board at regular intervals. The low-order section frame signals processed by the low-order section frame processing boards are supplied to a high-order section frame processing board and sequentially selected within one frame, thereby generating time-division multiplex signals. The sync signals are generated by a sync signal generating board and transmitted to a sync signal transmitting line formed on the mother board. The sync signal transmitting line is formed so as to transmit the sync signals in a direction in which the low-order section frame processing boards are arranged. The sync signals are supplied to the low-order section frame processing boards through the sync signal transmitting line in a bus line system. The low-order section frame signals generated from the low-order section frame processing boards are transmitted to a plurality of low-order section frame signal transmitting lines formed in the direction in which the sync signals are transmitted, and supplied to the high-order section frame processing board through the low-order section frame signal transmission lines.

Digital signal time-division multiplex apparatus

In a frame synchronization circuit, a serial data signal, which includes a frame synchronization code constituted by an M number of bits in one frame, is converted by a serial/parallel converting circuit to a parallel data signal of a 2M-1 number of bits. An M number of pattern detectors of a first synchronization detecting circuit detect the code pattern of the first block of the frame synchronization code from the parallel data signal. A selection signal generating circuit holds outputs of the pattern detectors, and outputs them as a selection signal designating the bit position allotted to the pattern detector which detects the synchronization code pattern. An output of the serial/parallel converting circuit is delayed by a time required for the above-mentioned processing, and supplied to a selector, which selectively outputs an M-bit data signal corresponding to the bit position designated by the selection signal.

Frame synchronization circuit

N framing units block N-channel input digital signals, respectively, to provide blocked signals. The framing units respond to a common block synchronization signal from a multiplexing unit to provide the blocked signals in a time relation suitable for multiplexing. The multiplexing unit multiplexes the blocked signals from the framing units to provide a multiplexed signal (higher-order group signal).

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Ichikawa, Japan

Takehiko Atsumi