Functional Description
(d) SPCR:C
×
C1, C
×
C0 = 11
B
×
looping from/to S/T
transmission of variable pattern to S/T
S/T Interface
IOM -2 Interface
R
Layer-1
Functions
Bx
CxR
Bx
IDP0 (DD)
IDP1 (DU)
µP
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2.4.4
MONITOR Channel Handling
In IOM-2 mode, the MONITOR channel protocol is a handshake protocol used for high speed
information exchange between the ISAC-S and other devices, in MONITOR channel "0" or "1"
(see
figure 29).
In the non-TE mode, only one MONITOR channel is available ("MONITOR
channel 0").
The MONITOR channel protocol is necessary:
q
For programming and controlling devices attached to the IOM. Examples of such devices
are: layer-1 transceivers (using MONITOR channel 0), and peripheral V/D modules that do
not need a parallel microcontroller interface (monitor channel 1), such as the Audio Ringing
Codec Filter PSB 2160.
For data exchange between two microcontroller systems attached to two different devices
on one IOM-2 backplane. Use of the MONITOR channel avoids the necessity of a dedicated
serial communication path between the two systems. This greatly simplifies the system
design of terminal equipment (figure
q
Note:
There is normally no necessity for monitor channel operations over "MONITOR channel
0" since the internal layer-1 part of the ISAC-S does not support this function. The
implemented MONITOR handler can however be used with external layer-1
transceivers in case only the ICC part of the ISAC-S is used (ADF1:TEM).
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