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`Title: Fiexible Interface
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`Description
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`The present invention relates to the transfer of data and in particular to interface
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`devices
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`for commun.ication between a computer or host device and a data
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`tra:nsm.it/receive device from which data is to be acquired or with which two-way
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`communication is to take place.
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`Existing data acquisition systems for computers are very limited in their areas of
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`application. Generally such systems can be classified into two groups.
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`In the first group host devices or computer systems are attached by means of an
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`:interface to a device whose data is to be acquired. The interfaces of this group are
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`normally standard interfaces which, with specific driver software, can be used with a
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`variety of host systems. An advantage of such interfaces is that they are largely
`independent of the host device. However, a disadvantage is that they generally require
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`very sophisticated drivers which are prone to malfunction and which limit data
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`transfer rates between. the device connected to the interface and the host device and
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`vice versa. Further,» it is often very difficult to implement such interfaces for portable
`systems and they offer few possibilities for adaptation with the result
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`systems offer little flexibility.
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`The devices from which data is to be acquired cover the entire electrical engineering
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`spectmm. In a typical case, it is assumed that a customer who operates, for example, a
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`diiagnosticradiology system in a medical engineering environrnent reports a fault. A
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`field service technician of the system manufacturer visits the customer and reads
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`system log files generated by the diagnostic radiology system by means a portable
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`computer or laptop for example. If the fault cannot be localized or if the fault is
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`intermittent, it will be necessary for the service technician to read not only an error
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`lo-g file but also data from current operation. It is apparent that in this case fast data
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`transfer and rapid data analysis are necessary.
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`Another case requiring;
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`the use of an interface could be, for example, when an
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`electronic measuring device, e. g. a multimeter, is attached to a computer system to
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`transfer the data measured by the multimeter to the computer‘. Particularly when long
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`term measurements or -large volumes of data are involved is it necessary for the
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`interface to support a high data transfer rate.
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`Frotm these randomly chosen examples it can be seen that an interface may be put to
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`tota.lly different uses. It is therefore desirable that an jinterface be sufficiently flexible
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`to permit attachment of very different electrical or electronic: systems to a host device
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`by rneans of the interface. To prevent operator error, it is also desirable that a service
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`technician is not required to operate different interfaces in different ways for different
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`applications but that, if possible, a universal method of operating the interface be
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`' provided for a large number of applications. T
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`To increase the data transfer rates across an interface, the route chosen in the second.
`group of data acquisition ‘systems for the interface devices was to specifically match
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`the interface very closely to individual" host systems or computer systems. The
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`advantage of this solution is that high data transfer rates are possible. However, a
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`disadvantage is that the drivers for the interfaces of the second group are very closely
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`matched to a single host system with the result that they generally cannot be used with
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`other host systems or their use is very ineffective. Further, such types of interface
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`have the disadvantage:
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`that they must be installed inside:
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`achieve maximum data transfer rates as they access the internal host bus system. They
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`are therefore generally not suitable for portable host systems in the form of laptops
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`whose minimum possible size leaves little internal space to jplug in an interface card.
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`A. solution to this problem is offered by the interface devices of lOtech (business
`address: 25971 Cannon Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44146, USA) which are suitable for
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`laptops such as the WaveBook/512 (registered trademark). The interface devices are
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`connected by means of a plug—in card, approximately the size of a credit card, to the
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`PCMCIA interface which is now a standard feature in laptops. The plug--in card
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`converts the PCMCIA interface into an interface known in the art as IEEB 1284. The
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`said plug—in card provides a special printer interface which is enhanced as regards the
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`data transfersrate and delivers a data transfer rate of approximately 2 MBps as
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`1 MBps for known printer. interfaces. The known
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`interface device generally consists of a driver component, a digital signal processor, a
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`buffer and a hardware module which terminates in a. connector to which the device
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`whose data is to be acquired is attached. The driver component is attached directly to
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`the enhanced printer interface thus. permitting the known int;erface device to establ.i_sh
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`a connection between a computer and the device whose data is to be acquired.
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`in order to work with t.he said interface, an interface—specific driver must be installed
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`on the host device so that the host device can communicate with the digital signal
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`processor of the interface card. As described above, the driver must be installed on the
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`host device. If the driver is a driver developed specifically for the host device, a high
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`host system. However, if the driver is a general driver which is as flexible as possible
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`and which can be used on many h.ost devices, compromises must be accepted with
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`]?a1.'ticularly in an application for multi-tasking systems in which several different
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`tasks such as data acquisition, data display_and editing are to be performed quasi-
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`driver supporting a special task requests the central processing system of the host
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`device for processor resources in order to perform its task. Depending on the
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`particular priority assignment method and on the driver implementation, a particular
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`Conflicts arise if one or more drivers are implemented in such a way that they have
`the highest priority by default, i.e. they are incompatible, as happens in practice: in
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`many applications. It may occur that both drivers are set to highest priority which, in
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`the worst case, can result in a system crash.
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`EP 0685799 A1 discloses an interface by means of which several peripheral devices
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`can be attached to a bus. An interface is connected between the bus of a host device
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`and various peripheral devices. The interface comprises a finite state machine and
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`several branches each of which is assigned to a peripheral device. Each branch
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`comprises a data manager, cycle control, user logic and a buffer. This known interface.
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`device.
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`The specialist publication IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Vol. 38, No. 05, page
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`(245; "Communication Method between Devices through FTDD Interface" discloses an
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`interface which connects a host device to a peripheral device via a floppy disk drive
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`interface. The interface consists in particular of an address generator, an MFM
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`encoder/decoder, a serial/parallel adapter and a format signal generator. The interface
`makes ‘it possible to attach not only a floppy disk drive but also a further peripheral
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`device to the FDD host controller of a host device. The host device assumes that a.
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`communication is initiated if the address is correct. However, this document contains
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`connected to a multi-purpose interface instead of to a floppy disk drive controller.
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`cormmunication between a host device and a data transmit/receive device whose use is
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`host device-independent and which delivers a high data transfer rate.
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`‘This object is achieved by an interface device accordingto claim 1 or 12 and by a
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`method according to claim 15.
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`host device-independent use can be achieved if a driver for an input/output device
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`customary m a host device, normally present in most commercially available host.
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`devices, is utilized. Drivers for input/output devices customary in a host device which
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`are found in practically all host devices are, for example, drivers for hard disks, for
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`graphics devices or for printer devices. As however the hard disk interfaces in
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`common host devices; which can be, for example, IBM PCs, IBM—compatible PCS,
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`Commodore PCs, Apple: computers or even workstations, are the interfaces with the
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`highest data transfer rate, the hard disk driver is utilized in the preferred embodiment
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`of the interface device of the present invention. Drivers for other storage devices such
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`as floppy disk drives, CD-ROM drives or tape drives could also be utilized in order to
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`irnplement the interface device according to the present invention.
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`As described in the following, the interface device according to the present invention
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`is to be attached to a host device by means of a rnulti—purpose interface of the host
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`device which can be implemented, for example, as an SCSI interface or as an
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`enhanced printer interface. Multi-purpose interfaces cornprise both an interface card
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`designed so that it can replace the BIOS driver routines. Communication between the
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`host device and the devices attached to the multi—purpose interface then essentially
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`I:al<:es place by means of the specific driver software for the multi—purpose interface
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`and no longer primarily by means of BIOS routines of the host device. Recently
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`however drivers for multi-purpose interfaces can also already be integrated in the
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`‘BIOS system of the host device as, alongside classical input/output interfaces, mu.lti—
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`purpose interfaces are becoming increasingly common in host devices. It is of course
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`also possible to use BIOS routines in parallel withthe specific driver software for the
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`rnulti—purpose interface, if this is desired.
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`The interface device according to the present invention comprises a processor means,
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`a memory means, a first connecting device for interfacing the host device with the
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`interface device, and a second connecting device for interfacing the interface device ’
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`with the data transmit/receive device. The interface device is configured by the
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`processor means and the memory means in such a way that the interface device, when
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`receiving an inquiry from the host device via the first connecting device as to the ‘type
`of a device attached to the host device, sends a signal, regardless of the type of the
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`data transmit/receive device,
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`to the host device via the first connecting device which
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`signals to the host device that it is communicating with an input/output device. The
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`imterface device according to the present invention therefore simulates, -both in terms
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`the way in which a conventional input/output device
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`jfullctions, preferably that of a hard disk drive. As support
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`for hard disl<:s
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`implemented as standard in all commercially available host systems, the simulation of
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`a hard disk, for example, can provide host device-independent use. The interface
`device according to the present invention therefore no longer communicates with the
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`host device or computer by means of a specially designed driver but.by means of a
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`program which is present in the "BIOS system (Basic Input/Output System) and is
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`normally precisely matched to the specific computer system on which it is installed,
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`interface device according to the present invention combines the advantages of both
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`groups. On the one hand, communication between the computer and the interface
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`takes place by means of a host device-specific BIOS program or by means of a driver
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`‘program which is matched to the multi-purpose interface and which could be regarded
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`as a "device-specific driver". On the other hand,
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`the BIOS program or
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`input/output interfaces in host systems is therefore present in all host systems so that
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`the interface device according to the present invention is host device—independent.
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`In the following, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be explained i_n
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`:more detail with reference to the drawings enclosed, in which:
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`present invention; and
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`FigUH . 2 shows a detailed block diagram of an interface device according to a preferred
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`embodiment of the present invention.
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`1 shows a general block diagram of an interface device 10 according to the
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`present invention. A first connecting device 12 of the interface device 10 can be
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`attached to a host device (not shown) via a host line 11. The first connecting device is
`attached both to a digital signal processor 13 and to a memory means 14. The digital.
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`signal. processor 13 and the memory means 14 are also attached to a second
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`connecting device 15 by means of bi—directional conimunication lines (shown for all
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`limes by means of two directional arrows). The second connecting device can be
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`attached by means of an output line 16 to a data transmit/receive device which is to
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`receive data from the host device or from which data is to be read, i.e. acquired, and
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`transferred to the host device. The data transmit/recei.ve device itself can also
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`communicate actively with the host device via the first and second connecting device,
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`as described in more detail in the following.
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`Communication between th