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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1979
Barry D Briggs, Cambridge, OH (US);
George C Beason, Acton, MA (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
To effect an accurate transmission of data between processing equipment and a plurality of peripheral devices, first and second interfaces are employed for reconstructing and transmitting the data over a communications link such as a conductor pair. The first interface termed a master terminal which is coupled to a common control module by way of a common control bus, receives instruction, address, and data information from the processor, and transmits a serial data code containing all this information to a plurality of second interfaces, termed slave terminals. Each slave terminal is coupled to a set of peripheral devices by a common bus and when a peripheral device recognizes its address being present in the code received from the master terminal, the slave terminal responds to complete the transaction with the master terminal and the addressed peripheral device.