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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1996
Claude Athenes, Paris, FR;
Jean-Claude Audrix, Saint Martin d'Uriage, FR;
Jean-Claude Longchambon, Tullins, FR;
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A., Gentilly, FR;
Abstract
This invention relates to a matrix for switching between two time-division multiplex groups, including three areas for buffering the data arriving in multiplex onto input junctions, which issue these data in multiplex to output junctions according to an assignment of each time slot of an input multiplex to a time slot of an output multiplex, a first area being meant for receiving the data relative to the transmissions as they are issued by a series-to-parallel converter receiving the input junctions and for enabling, at least when the data belong to a transmission channel including several time slots of a same multiplex, a transfer of the data to one of the two other buffer areas according to the parity of the multiplex frame it contains.