Method and device for connecting sensors or actuators to a bus system

• Main Authors: NEUL REINHARD, FUEHRER THOMAS
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 04.03.2009
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; ACOUSTICS; ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; ADVERTISING; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATIONOF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY; BROADCAST COMMUNICATION; CALCULATING; CHEMISTRY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL; CODING; CODING OR CIPHERING APPARATUS FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC OR OTHERPURPOSES INVOLVING THE NEED FOR SECRECY; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DECODING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HOLOGRAPHY; HOROLOGY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; METALLURGY; MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SEALS; SELECTING; SIGNALLING; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION; TESTING; TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILARSIGNALS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A sensor connection procedure synchronizes (106) the sensor (104) or actuator to an external global cycle time from a bus system (110) during a fast clock first phase so as to allow signal processing. Independent claims are included for a sensor using the procedure.