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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1981
John Vivian, Houston, TX (US);
Patrick R Cooper, Houston, TX (US);
Ronald B Higgins, Houston, TX (US);
John A Harlan, Houston, TX (US);
Paul M Perry, Houston, TX (US);
Juan B Vallhonrat, Houston, TX (US);
Donald P Golden, Jr, Houston, TX (US);
Litton Resources Systems, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A data processing system having an architecture that will allow high-speed direct device-to-device data transfers without the necessity of first detouring the data through a computer memory. The system consists of a host computer and a remote signal processing subsystem connected thereto. A Direct Device Access Bus and a plurality of data processing devices are provided. A controller associated with a Signal Processing Subsystem supervisor, selectively interconnects desired ones of a set of data processing devices via the Direct Device Access Bus to provide direct communication between the selected devices within a set. Several sets of devices can be serviced concurrently by the technique of dynamic time slot allocation.