Error status reporting
First Claim
1. A digital signal propagation unit, including in combination,a first plurality of shift registers, each said shift register having a plurality of settable shift register stages, and being interconnected as a single string of serially connected shift registers, anda plurality less than said first plurality of OR circuits respectively receiving signals from stages of predetermined ones of said plurality of shift registers and each said OR circuits each having an output connected to one of said shift register stages in other than those shift registers from which signals are received by such OR circuit.
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Abstract
A plurality of status reporting units are connected respectively to a plurality of shift registers. The shift registers receive and store status signals from the status reporting units. Each of the shift registers include an OR circuit for combining the signals from all of the stages of the respective shift registers. An output of the OR circuit is connected to the input of one stage of a shift register other than the shift register supplying signals thereto. The arrangement is such that the one stage in the respective shift registers indicate the status of one or more error status reporting units. A status analyzing unit receives signals from the various shift registers for analyzing error patterns of the status reporting units in response to receiving a signal that at least one of the status reporting units has error status to report.
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1. A digital signal propagation unit, including in combination,
a first plurality of shift registers, each said shift register having a plurality of settable shift register stages, and being interconnected as a single string of serially connected shift registers, and a plurality less than said first plurality of OR circuits respectively receiving signals from stages of predetermined ones of said plurality of shift registers and each said OR circuits each having an output connected to one of said shift register stages in other than those shift registers from which signals are received by such OR circuit.
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4. A data processing system having a status reporting unit including in combination,
a status analyzing unit for receiving status, a plurality of status reporting units for supplying status signals, some of said status signals being error indicating signals, a like plurality of registers, each having a plurality of stages, respectively connected to said status reporting units for receiving said status signals, a like plurality of OR circuits, respectively connected to said registers, having inputs from predetermined ones of said stages of said respective registers and having an output, each of said plurality of registers less one having a stage for receiving signals from the output of said respective OR circuits less one, and one of said OR circuits being connected to said status analyzing unit for supplying an alert signal thereto.
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