Asynchronous parallel status comparator
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus for matching asynchronously received signals and determining whether two or more out of a total number of possible signals match. The apparatus comprises, in one embodiment, an array of sensors positioned in discrete locations and in communication with one or more processors. The processors will receive signals if the sensors detect a change in the variable sensed from a nominal to a special condition and will transmit location information in the form of a digital data set to two or more receivers. The receivers collect, read, latch and acknowledge the data sets and forward them to decoders that produce an output signal for each data set received. The receivers also periodically reset the system following each scan of the sensor array. A comparator then determines if any two or more, as specified by the user, of the output signals corresponds to the same location. A sufficient number of matches produces a system output signal that activates a system to restore the array to its nominal condition. 4 figs.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 7232687
- Patent Number(s):
- 5172091
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 7-678428
- Assignee:
- PTO; EDB-94-090347
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-89SR18035
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 1 Apr 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 42 ENGINEERING; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; DESIGN; MONITORS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PROCESSING; 440000* - Instrumentation; 426000 - Engineering- Components, Electron Devices & Circuits- (1990-)
Citation Formats
Arnold, J W, and Hart, M M. Asynchronous parallel status comparator. United States: N. p., 1992.
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abstractNote = {Disclosed is an apparatus for matching asynchronously received signals and determining whether two or more out of a total number of possible signals match. The apparatus comprises, in one embodiment, an array of sensors positioned in discrete locations and in communication with one or more processors. The processors will receive signals if the sensors detect a change in the variable sensed from a nominal to a special condition and will transmit location information in the form of a digital data set to two or more receivers. The receivers collect, read, latch and acknowledge the data sets and forward them to decoders that produce an output signal for each data set received. The receivers also periodically reset the system following each scan of the sensor array. A comparator then determines if any two or more, as specified by the user, of the output signals corresponds to the same location. A sufficient number of matches produces a system output signal that activates a system to restore the array to its nominal condition. 4 figs.},
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