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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1993
Daniel L Heflin, Front Royal, VA (US);
Gary V Layton, Sterling, VA (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
A system for sensing the state or condition of a very large number of interconnection points in real time in electrical context with other points in a system. The system has a plurality of multiple interconnect sense modules having a plurality of interconnection sensing points for coupling to other points in the system. The system further has a transmitter/receiver in the module for each interconnection point to be sensed. The system further has an address generator counter for generating a unique address at each transmitter/receiver during a unique time period identifying each transmitter/receiver. A logic controller is provided with inputs from each of the receivers of the transmitter/receiver for sensing the state of the receivers at its unique time period. An encoder is coupled to the output of the logic controller for generating information indicative of the interconnection of two interconnection points during each one of the unique time periods. The output of the encoder is coupled to a buffer. The buffer is coupled to a CPU and to the address counter for receiving information indicative of the connection between any interconnection point and any other interconnection point in real time.