David A Sherman

US Patent:

44256647, Jan 10, 1984

Filed:

May 7, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/376262

Inventors:

David N. Sherman - Middletown NJ
Shiv P. Verma - Lakewood NJ

Assignee:

Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04B 350
H04M 300
G06F 300

US Classification:

375 8

Abstract:

Disclosed is a programmable universal data set which is defined as a data set that is capable of simultaneously servicing a plurality of data terminals desiring diverse types of data sets for several different transmission speeds and formats. The universal data set comprises analog and digital buffer processors adapted for interfacing with a plurality of data terminals and with a multi-input transmission medium, a high speed digital processor having a "highly parallel" structure for computing the various elemental functions of the diverse types of data sets, and a cyclic processor for controlling the operational sequence of the high speed processor to achieve the overall operation of the selected types of data sets. The cyclic processor includes means for modifying the types of data sets implemented.