Switching system for controlling internal apparatuses in an exchange system

• US 6,671,760 B1
• Filed: 07/30/1999
• Issued: 12/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kira, Masaki, Fujihira, Atsushi, Kawasaki, Hiroya, Mitsuze, Kiyofumi, Iwasa, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Tim
• Application Number:
  US09/364,583
• Time in Patent Office: 1,614 Days
• Field of Search: 710/316, 710/305, 710/124, 710/107, 710/308, 710/106, 713/320, 370/394, 370/395.1, 375/257, 359/139
• US Class Current: 710/106
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 2203/0012 Switching modules and their interconnections
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/1611 Synchronous digital hierarchy [SDH] or SONET H04J3/1664 takes precedence for interactions with OTN

Abstract

A switching system for controlling internal apparatuses provided within an exchange system includes a central controller and a switching module including a plurality of objective apparatuses, each objective apparatus including a control data end unit, controlled by the central controller based on DMA communication and SD/SCN signal. Further, the central controller includes a first processor access controller which transfers control data to the control data end unit, in order to check and control each of objective apparatus, based on the DMA communication and the SD/SCN signal. The switching module includes a second processor access controller which relays the control data transferred between the first processor access controller and a plurality of control data end units-based on the DMA communication and the SD/SCN signal. According to the present invention, it is possible to realize high speed data transfer and high reliability based on the DMA communication and the SD/SCN signal between the central controller and each objective apparatus.

Claims

1. A switching system comprising:

a central controller which transfers control data to a plurality of end units; and

a switching module including a processor access controller which relays the control data transferred between the central processor and the plurality of end units;

wherein the central controller and the processor access controller comprise a transmitter and a receiver which set the control data based on a direct memory access (DMA) communication therebetween and based on an SD/SCN signal, to each bit position of each fixed time slot,

said transmitter and said receiver each including a first bit converter for converting control data from X bits to Y bits (X>

Y) and a second bit converter for converting control data from Y bits to X bit, and

said switching system further comprising an optical fiber cable having an electric-optical converter and an optical-electric converter at both ends thereof to couple the transmitter and the receiver.

2. A switching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor access controller comprises a transfer means which copies a particular SD signal data bit within a plurality of SD signal data transferred from the central controller in order to control the objective apparatus, and transfers simultaneously the copied SD signal data bit to the control data end units in each objective apparatus.

3. A switching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor access controller performs priority selection based on an apparatus number of each objective apparatus, when receiving control data transmission requests based on the DMA communication which are generated simultaneously by the plurality of objective apparatuses and are sent to the central controller, and switches the connection path in the DMA connection selector to the preferentially selected objective apparatus.

4. A switching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the central controller and process access controller comprises a setting means which sets a signal indicating procedures based on the DMA communication to the bit position of the fixed time slot.

5. A switching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the central controller and process access controller comprises a transfer means which edits the control data bit of the SD/SCN signal into a data format by attaching the CRC error correction code for each of objective apparatuses.

6. A switching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the central controller and process access controller comprises a transfer means which transfers the control data by switching alternately between a through transfer and an inversion transfer, the through transfer being performed by sending the control data with a predetermined block without any change, and the inversion transfer being performed by sending the control data after inversion, except for synchronous pattern.

7. A switching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the central controller and process access controller comprises a setting means which sets a fixed bit which becomes inconsistent between sequential synchronous patterns having predetermined numbers and the control data, to a particular bit position in the control data area.