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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1999
Herbert Knotz, Erbach, DE;
TEMIC Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, DE;
Abstract
A signal when transmitting digital transmission signals between a transmitter unit and at least one receiver unit, one signal lead is generally required as a transmission medium for each digital transmission signal. To permit simultaneous transmission of several digital transmission signals through a common signal lead, the digital transmission signals (S,. . . S,) are totaled with several logical signal levels in the transmitter unit (,) to form a multilevel signal (m). This multilevel signal (m) is transmitted from the transmitter unit (,) to the receiver unit (,) through a signal lead (,). For the purpose of forming digital received signals (S,. . . S,) corresponding to the digital transmission signals (S,. . . S,), the received multilevel signal (m) is compared in the receiver unit (,) with signal thresholds (V,. . . V,) located between the logical signal levels of the multilevel signal (m).