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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for ensuring soundness between processors connected to a system bus for serial communication. SOLUTION: A processor 100 is connected to another processor 200 through a system bus L10 including a serial signal communication line L20 and a synchronization signal communication line L30. An arithmetic unit 110 detects an abnormal state in the processor 100, the arithmetic unit 110 outputs an abnormal-state detection report to a synchronization unit 130. The synchronization unit 130 transmits the report to the other processor 200 through the synchronization signal communication line L30. A conversion unit 120 receives parallel communication data from the arithmetic unit 110 through an important signal line L160 instead of a general signal line L150, and converts the received parallel signal to a serial signal, and transmits it to the other processor 200 through the serial signal communication line L20. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication control device whose transfer performance is not reduced, even when transfer via a line is made, without adding a counter to a plurality of input modules, in a process control system. SOLUTION: A time counter is provided in a destination communication control device. Furthermore, an input buffer for temporarily storing input data and a time buffer that temporarily stores the time counted value of the time counter are provided in the destination communication control devices. These buffers are simultaneously allowed to update data. The destination communication control device has a means for transmitting a single time value and a plurality of input values. A source communication control device has a means for expanding a single time value into a plurality of input values. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the entire failure detection rate by performing failure detection without depending on an output of a processing part and performing failure detection of a comparing part for performing the failure detection without limiting execution timing. SOLUTION: This diagnostic device is provided with the comparing part for detecting a failure of processing parts by comparing two pieces of output information output from duplicated two processing parts, a failure information injecting part for injecting pseudo failure information so that the comparing part may detect the processing parts have a failure into the comparing part, and a failure determination part for performing failure determination of the comparing part by using a detection result of the comparing part to which the pseudo failure information is injected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bus system capable of guaranteeing the reliability of transfer data even though abnormality occurs in a master or a slave uninvolved in transfer during transferring data whose reliability should be guaranteed in the bus system in which a plurality of masters 1 and 2 and slaves 3 and 4 are connected to a bus 5. SOLUTION: The bus system is provided with bus switches 31 to 34 and a switch control part 11. During priority (security) data transfer, a priority (security) data signal 71 is defined as "1", and bus switches 32 and 34 of the master 2 and the slave 4 uninvolved in the transfer are turned off, and while during normal data transfer, the priority (security) data signal 71 is defined as "0", and all of the bus switches 31 to 34 are turned on. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication control apparatus capable of reducing an oversight error rate and carrying out masquerade detection over security functions in a process control system. SOLUTION: A data receiver side applies echo-back transmission to data, a data transmission source collates the data and informs a result of the collation of the data receiver side. The communication control apparatus comprises: a master communication control apparatus; and a slave communication control apparatus connected to an output circuit, the master communication control apparatus transmits output data, the slave communication control apparatus transmits echo-back of the output data, and the master communication control apparatus collates the output data with the echo-back and permits an output to the slave communication control apparatus when they are coincident. The communication control apparatus comprises the master communication control apparatus and the slave communication control apparatus connected to an input circuit, the slave communication control apparatus transmits input data, the master communication control apparatus transmits echo-back of the input data, and the slave communication control apparatus collates the input data and the echo-back and permits an input to the master communication control apparatus when they are coincident. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control system with improved reliability by detecting even a failure of an address line before writing data into a wrong address. SOLUTION: A system control circuit 120 transfers data to a memory 140, and writes the data to the assigned address of the memory 140 or reads the data from the assigned address of the memory 140. An error detecting circuit 134 of a memory control device 130 detects the error of the address assigned to the memory 140. A control circuit 136 allows the data transfer to the memory 140 when the assigned address is correct. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the configuration of a system consisting of plural processors and also to shorten the control processing time of the system configuration by providing a management table to which the processors can have accesses with no control required for the configuration of a main memory. SOLUTION: A system LSI 108 includes a management table 126, and the processors 100-103 access the table 126 via the signal lines 104-107. The table 126 consists of a row, a configuration control area and a flag. The flag value of '0' shows that the configuration control processing is not executed yet, and the flag value of '1' shows that the constitution control processing is already executed or being executed. When a power supply is turned on, the processors 100-103 execute the constitution control programs stored in a rise memory 111. Thus, a system can carry out the parallel processes by means of the table 126 even when a main memory 112 undergoes no configuration control and is unusable since the table 126 is constructed in the LSI 108 and not in the memory 112.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bus bridge circuit which can be utilized without changing a correspondent device driver even when an arbitrary device and a bus bridge are integrated and changed to a bus bridge to be directly connected top processor buses. SOLUTION: This bus bridge circuit 1 with which first buses 10-30 are mutually connected to second buses 19-39 is provided with an address decode means 2 which outputs a select signal to an address range on the first buses 10-30 corresponding to a device T on the second buses 19-39, an area enable circuit 40 which instructs whether or not the bus bridge circuit 1 is to respond to the select signal for each device T on the second buses 19-39, an area enabler 3 which outputs a start signal for determining bridge operation based on the select signal and the area enable instruction, and a bridge sequence which executes master operation on the second buses 19-39 corresponding to the start signal.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a failure detection device and a failure detection method for a power conversion system capable of detecting an anomaly of a voltage detector and failure of an element while distinguishing them.SOLUTION: A failure detection device includes a forward voltage detector 21 for detecting a forward voltage across an anode and a cathode of a thyristor 11, a reverse voltage detector 31 for detecting a reverse voltage across the anode and the cathode of the thyristor 11, and a failure detection part 172 for executing failure detection processing which includes determination of element failure of the thyristor 11, to which the forward voltage detector 21 and the reverse voltage detector 31 are connected in parallel, failure of the forward voltage detector 11, and failure of the reverse voltage detector 31, based on a forward voltage detection signal inputted from the forward voltage detector 21 and a reverse voltage detection signal inputted from the reverse voltage detector 31.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new control apparatus for preventing a reduction in processing speed due to code conversion of a program when a sequence processing program having an instruction set of another processor is executed on its own processor.SOLUTION: A processor 2 reads data from a storage unit 3, performs a process described as a program, and notifies a conversion command unit 6 of a command to change a data acquisition method from the storage unit 3 in accordance with content of the data. The conversion command unit 6 changes an operation of a change unit 5 due to the notification from the processor 2. The change unit 5 is connected directly or indirectly via a conversion unit 4 to the storage unit 3, and changes a data reading method from the storage unit 3 in accordance with an indication from the conversion command unit 6. The conversion unit 4 converts the data read from the storage unit 3 to data that can be processed by the processor 2 in accordance with a conversion method described later.