JPH0267028A - Compound device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit time and labor required for setting and to manage set information consolidatedly by providing a means to perform the centralized management of the operating procedure of a unit with one memory and to allocate the procedure to the operating procedure holding means of each unit via a bus. CONSTITUTION:The title device is equipped with the units (21-2n) connected to a central processing part 10 via an operation setting bus 30 and that are the constituent of a device, and the central procesing part 10 having the memory 11 on which operation setting information is registered and a control part 12 which outputs the operation setting information to the operation setting bus 30, and each of the units (21-2n) is provided with a readable and writable memory which stores the set information supplied from the central processing part 10 via the operation setting bus 30. The central processing part 10 supplies the operation setting information in the memory 11 to each of the units (21-2n) via the operation setting bus 30 when setting on each of the units (21-2n) is requested, and decides the operation of a compound device 1. ln such a way, it is possible to manage the operation setting information consolidatedly.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention provides a plurality of functional units (hereinafter referred to as units).
This invention relates to a means for setting and registering the operation of a device.

The present invention is applied to a multi-channel communication device that includes a large number of units for each channel, which transmit and receive data on one transmission path.

[Summary]

The present invention centrally manages the operation procedures of all the units in one memory in the operation procedure setting means of the units constituting the composite device, and distributes this to the operation procedure holding means of each unit via a bus. By doing so, it is possible to omit the effort required for setting and to manage setting information in a unified manner.

[Conventional technology]

A set of composite devices is realized as a collection of a plurality of units 41 to 4n, and conventionally, the operation settings of the units 41 to 4n have been performed using manual switches or straps provided independently for each unit.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In such a conventional example, since various setting information is distributed for each unit, it takes time and effort to set up the device when starting up the device, and there is also a drawback that setting information cannot be managed in a unified manner.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention aims to eliminate these drawbacks, and aims to provide a multifunction device in which unit operation procedures can be easily determined and setting information can be uniformly managed.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention includes a plurality of units, each of which has information holding means set with information indicating an operating procedure including an operating procedure of the own unit that is related to an operating procedure of other units. In the multifunction device, the information holding means has a structure in which information given as an electrical signal is written and the written information can be read, and the information holding means stores information indicating all operating procedures of the unit. and,
An operation setting bus connects this storage means and the information holding means, and information indicating the operation procedure of this unit is extracted from the storage means and transferred to the information holding means of one unit via this operation setting bus. The present invention is characterized by comprising a control means for calculating and providing a relationship.

[Effect]

Operation setting information for each of the plurality of units constituting the apparatus is registered in a memory provided in the central processing section, and settings are made through an operation setting bus connected from the central processing section to each unit. This enables centralized management of setting information and automates manual operation settings for each unit.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. 1st
The figure is a block configuration diagram showing the configuration of this embodiment.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG.
The units 21 to 2n that are the constituent elements of the device, the memory 11 in which operation setting information is registered, and the control unit 12 that outputs this operation setting information to the operation setting bus 30 are connected to the central processing unit 10 via Here, each of the units 21 to 2n has a readable and writable memory that stores setting information given from the central processing unit 10 via the operation setting bus 30. That is, in this embodiment, a plurality of units 2
1 to 2n, each of these units is given and written as an electrical signal information indicating the operating procedure including the operating procedure of its own unit related to the operating procedure of other units, and this written information a memory 11 that is a storage means that stores information indicating all the operating procedures of the units 21 to 2n; and an operation setting that combines this storage means and the information storage means. The control unit 12 is provided with a bus 30 and a control unit 12 which is a control unit that extracts information indicating the operation procedure of one unit from the storage unit and supplies it to the information storage unit of one unit via the operation setting bus 30.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

When the central processing unit 10 needs to set each unit 21 to 2n, the central processing unit 10 sends the unit 21 via the operation setting bus 30.
The operation setting information in the memory 11 is given to each of 2n to 2n, and the operation of the multifunction device 1 is determined.

Furthermore, if it is necessary to change the operation setting information, this can be accomplished by changing the registered information in the memory 11 of the central processing unit 10. That is, changes in the operation settings of the plurality of units 21 to 2n constituting the multifunction device 1 can be realized by accessing the central processing section 10, which is one unit.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention allows the operation settings of a plurality of units making up the device to be executed using the operation setting information registered centrally in the memory, so that the operation setting information can be managed in a unified manner. effective.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block configuration diagram showing the configuration of a conventional example. 1.1a... Composite device, 10... Central processing unit, 11
...Memory, 12...Control unit, 21-21.41-
4n...Unit, 30...Operation setting bus.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of units are provided, each of which has information holding means set with information indicating an operation procedure including an operation procedure of its own unit related to an operation procedure of other units. The information holding means has a structure in which information given as an electrical signal is written and the written information can be read out, and the information holding means has a memory that stores information indicating all operating procedures of the unit. means, an operation setting bus that connects the storage means and the information holding means, and information indicating the operation procedure of the unit is extracted from the storage means into the information holding means of one unit via the operation setting bus. and control means for calculating and providing a mutual relationship.