MULTI-MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEM Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC G06F13/00 

FIELD: digital measuring and controlling equipment engineering, in particular, multi-machine control systems.

SUBSTANCE: the multi-machine system, consisting of n controlling micro-computers, contains a common random-access memory, software-hardware arbiter of common bus, made of N logical elements (N-1)AND-NOT, while software of micro-computer is supplemented with software for analyzing the arbiter and requesting access to it, which software includes temporary delay command for placing micro-computer into a queue after detection of a collision.

EFFECT: increased reliability when exchanging data between micro-computers in case of common random-access memory being used as data exchange device.

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