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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2018
Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, VT (US);
Owen Daniel Evans, Burnsville, MN (US);
Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, VT (US);
Abstract
A master node of a distributed acquisition system is provided. The master node includes a communication interface for interfacing between a control component and a bus and the control component. The bus is coupled to one or more slave nodes distributed in the acquisition system. The control component is configured to acquire a configuration that provides a definition for a packet interval, wherein the packet interval definition provides an adequate timing margin to ensure that communication packets transmitted by the master node and the one or more slave nodes occur only at harmonics of the packet interval definition, distribute a time reference packet of the communication packets based on the packet interval definition via the bus to all of the slave nodes of the distributed acquisition system, and schedule transmission of communication packets transmitted by the master node via the bus to the one or more selected slave nodes based on the packet interval definition.