Serial Link (SL)
All information between the LIC board and the scanner unit is exchanged via the TSS serial link in two
modes:
Inbound mode from DMUX/SMUX to FESA.
All LIC information is stacked in FESA RAM and is available for the FES synchronously or asynchro-
nously.
– The LICs give the data received from transmission lines to the FESA.
– The FESA reads the registers from the MUXs or LICs.
Outbound mode from FESA to DMUX/SMUX.
– The FESA gives to the LICs the data to transmit.
– The FESA writes into the MUXs or LICs registers.
Connection to LIC Type 5 and LIC Type 6
Information exchange between the scanner and LIC type 5 and LIC type 6 DCEs is performed via a serial
link, which consists in:
Inbound link
From LIC to scanner
Outbound link
From scanner to LIC.
This information is carried in a frame structure.
Frames:
A frame is a sequence of 32 double slots (data + control).
┌──────┬───────┬──────┬───────┬───────/ /─────────┬──────┬───────┐
│data │control│data │control│
│data │control│
└──────┴───────┴──────┴───────┴───────/ /─────────┴──────┴───────┘
double slot ð
double slot 1
double slot 31
%────────────5 %────────────5
%────────────5
A superframe is defined as a sequence of 32 frames. A corresponding delimiter is put in control slots of
frame 31, to signal the end of a superframe.
┌──────────┬──────────┬───────────/ /────────────────┬──────────┐
│ frame
ð │ frame
1 │
│ frame 31 │
└──────────┴──────────┴───────────/ /────────────────┴──────────┘
Slots:
A double slot is made of:
A data slot
A control slot.
A slot is an eight-bit element of information.
Data Slots:
Data exchange between the scanner and the DCE is performed on a request/answer
basis, in order to enslave the serial link data speed to the DCE transmit and receive clocks.
The transmit and data slots carried by the serial outbound and inbound links, contain bursts of data or are
empty.
Up to five data bits can be sent or received in a data burst.
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