A Serial Fiber Optic Data Bus for a Distributed Microcomputer System.

Abstract

The design and development of a serial fiber optic data bus to connect several Intel single board computers in a distributed processing system is described in this thesis. Included are details on the serial bus control and message handling techniques developed for the system. Also included is a complete description of the hardware that was constructed. Commercially available fiber optic components were used in the data bus. The interface software is compatible with a real-time operating system previously developed at the Naval Postgraduate School. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA066612

Entities

People

  • Richard Ernest Schue

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Transmission
  • Data Transmission Systems
  • Debugging
  • Decoding
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Fiber Optics
  • Frequency
  • Generators
  • Military Applications
  • Operating Systems
  • Shift Registers
  • Standards
  • Terminals
  • Transmission Lines

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.