Master Slave

master Slave (German: Master slave) is a form of the administration of the access to common resources in a bus system or a computer network.

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basic principle

a participant is the master, the others is the Slaves. The master has as only the right to access without being asked the common medium. It queries the Slaves in regular time intervals. The Slave may and cannot on his part not the common medium access and must wait, until it is asked by the master.

advantages

  • of the masters time conditions
  • planning control are simply
  • the realization expenditure concentrate on the master
  • can also with the token bus be combined, D. h. only the masters do not give the tokens of far

disadvantages

  • to transverse traffic between the Slave are possible
  • querying are inefficiently

employment

the master Slave procedure become z. B. with the field penalties (professional bus, bit bus, AS-I … ) as access procedures assigned.

 

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