|Publication number||US7680137 B2|
|Application number||US 10/716,462|
|Publication date||16 Mar 2010|
|Priority date||12 Dec 2000|
|Also published as||CA2364419A1, CA2364419C, DE60142881D1, EP1215860A2, EP1215860A3, EP1215860B1, US7586928, US7590134, US20020105958, US20040114600, US20040208179|
|Publication number||10716462, 716462, US 7680137 B2, US 7680137B2, US-B2-7680137, US7680137 B2, US7680137B2|
|Original Assignee||Airbus France S.A.S.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (46), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (2), Classifications (15), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application is a continuation application of published U.S. application Ser. No. 09/988,527, filed Nov. 20, 2001, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to French Patent Application 00 16146, filed on Dec. 12, 2000, the entire disclosure of both of which are incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention concerns a process and device for deterministic transmission of asynchronous data in packets.
2. Discussion of the Background
In devices of the prior art for deterministic transmission of asynchronous data in packets, the acquisition device and data acquired by this device are asynchronous. Data packeting is made according to an inherent sequencing. A packet corresponds to one or several acquired data processed with or without wrapping, the wrapping being made up of a heading and an end. The number of data transmitted in the output message corresponding to a packet is defined according to two criteria:
In the first example of data transmission from a packet i in the output message, as illustrated in
In the second example of data transmission from a packet i in the output message, as illustrated in
In the field of data acquisition and telemetry of flight testing installations, the numerical or digital data, conveyed on continuous and cyclic messages, issued by acquisition and processing systems of the prior art is stored in the FIFO (First in-First out) batteries as and when it arrives. The data arrives in a totally asynchronous manner.
A module for packeting facilitates placing certain data from these FIFO batteries according to a predefined order. It also facilitates enhancing this data with elements of the relative data calculation type, data identification, and formatting of data, etc. A packet thus obtained is therefore a group of data with a precise format and containing data in a precise order.
A module for packeting operates according to the following succession of stages:
This message composition module recovers, one after the other, the packets created by the packeting modules. A message is then made up of successive packets in a predefined order.
A formatting module then facilitates setting the message in electrical format in the protocol used for the transmission.
The operating cycle of the packeting module is self-sustaining. When the message composition module needs a packet, it sends a request to the packeting module which transmits the packet if it is made up, i.e. if stage 4 is finished. If not, it sends nothing or else an empty packet so as not to block the message composition module. The data is transmitted via the various stages 1 to 5—the data arrives, it is put into packets by a self-sustaining device which has its own life, as it is only transferred in the message if the packet is ready. The message can contain no data, solely because the packeting has not been finished.
In these devices of the prior art, the data conveyed on the messages is at fixed slots in time. They are PCM (Pulse Coded Modulation) type messages which meet the IRIG106 standard. The formalism of packeting, as a packet can be made up of one datum, is standardized. On the other hand, this standard stipulates nothing on the transmission time of the packets. It is the same for the CE83 and CCSDS standards.
As illustrated in
The aim of the invention is to mitigate the disadvantages of devices of the prior art, by enabling:
The invention concerns a process of deterministic transmission of asychronous data in packets, in which data arriving asynchonously is stored in batteries as and when it arrives. The process can include the following stages:
In this process, a packeting module which is no longer self-sustained is used.
In this process, as soon as the message composition module requests a packet, it receives the latter for it is this module that controls the packeting cycle.
Contrary to devices of the prior art in which the messages are only compiled with “well finished” packets (with the risk of having empty packets), in the process of the invention each message carries packets perhaps “less well finished” but all the data which can be, is transmitted as soon as transmission is requested. The timing cycle of datum between input and output of a device implementing this process is therefore controlled.
The invention also concerns a device of deterministic transmission of asynchronous data in packets including:
The process and the device of the invention can be used notably in data acquisition and real-time processing systems for test installations for new aeroplanes. The solution proposed in the invention for such systems offers the following advantages. To follow vibration (or flutter) tests which are very dangerous for a plane, it is essential to perfectly control the transmission time TT, as the useful acquired data must be given to a specialist with a delay TT either less than 100 ms, or parameterized depending on the type of test. With the solution stipulated in the invention TT=TP, while in the devices of prior art TP<TT<≅2*TP on the assumption that TMS<<TP. The objectives are therefore optimized with the solution of the invention. In fact, at fixed TT, TP is greater with the recommended solution than with the solution of devices of the prior art.
The process of deterministic transmission of asynchronous data in packets of the invention in which data arriving asynchronously is stored in FIFO batteries as and when it arrives, includes the following stages:
As illustrated in
For an identified packet, the packeting limits the number of acquired data to a FIG. x. If during the time TP, there are x+m data to be packeted, m data is then lost.
The device of the invention, illustrated in
In the device of the invention, the digital or digitized data is stored in the FIFO batteries 11 as and when it arrives. The data arrives in a totally asynchronous manner—seen from the device its arrival is random.
The role of each packeting module 13 is to place certain data from the batteries 11 according to a predefined order. It can also enhance this data with elements of the relative date calculation type, data identification and formatting of the data. A packet is therefore a group of data with a precise format and containing data in a precise order.
As described previously, each packeting module 13 operates according to the following cycle:
What differentiates the device of the invention from devices of the prior art is the way in which each task 1 to 5 is triggered.
The message composition module 15 recovers the packets created by the successive packeting modules 13 one after the other in a predefined order.
The operating cycle of this module 13 is not self-sustaining. When the message composition module 15 needs a packet, it sends the request. This stops make-up of the packet in the course of realization. It transmits the packet thus made up then starts the realization cycle of a new packet.
The formatting module 16 is responsible for setting the message 15 in electrical format in the protocol used for the transmission (recognised function and realization).
In an example of operation, the device of the invention includes three packeting modules 13. The make-up of packets that they generate (P1, P2 and P3 respectively) is unimportant (data sorting, enhancing, etc.). As illustrated in
At present an example of realization will be considered which is an acquisition of arinc429 bus on the assumption that TMS<<TP, TCB being the bus cycle time, the number of data always being the same, and distributed in an equally-timed manner:
The advantages of the solution proposed by the invention as compared with devices of the prior art are shown in Table 1 at the end of the description. The device of the invention meets the objectives defined previously and reveals a very significant gain as compared with the devices of the prior art.
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|U.S. Classification||370/412, 370/473, 370/476, 340/945|
|International Classification||H04L12/70, G08B21/00, H04J3/00, H04Q11/04, H04L12/64|
|Cooperative Classification||H04L2012/6489, H04L2012/5652, H04Q11/0478, H04L12/6418|
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