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The New State Paper Office
Drawings Cataloguer Tom Drysdale has recently finished cataloguing Sir John Soane's drawings for the New State Paper Office, Soane's final public building. Here, he highlights the significance of this building for which Soane adopted a completely new style of architecture.
In 1829 Soane was commissioned to build a New State Paper Office in Duke Street, Westminster. This was to be a purpose-built repository – the first such building in England – for the official papers of various governmental departments which until then had been kept in a dilapidated house in Great George Street. When that house began to subside the alarm was raised and Soane, as an Attached Architect to the Office of Works, was directed to make designs for the new building. The first designs were submitted to the Treasury in May 1829 but in June the decision was made to invite Soane's fellow Attached Architects, John Nash (1752-1835) and Robert Smirke (1780-1867), also to submit designs for the new building. This unusual step was almost certainly taken in light of the 1828 Report of the Select Committee on the Office of Works which had been critical of the lack of competition in the designing of public buildings.
Design for the New State Paper Office, nearly as executed
Nevertheless, Soane's revised design was approved, but not before he had been forced to make further alterations. Yet again with Soane's public work a government official was determined to make his own mark on the building. This time it was Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), Chancellor of the Exchequer, who directed Soane to add two rows of pilasters to the elevations. Goulburn wasn't the only one to interfere – Henry Bankes (1757-1834) sought to increase the height of the attic. At the New Law Courts, Bankes had caused Soane a great deal of misery by making the architect halt the construction of his neo-classical building and reface it in a gothic style. At the New State Paper Office, though, his suggestions were overruled. Nor were Goulburn's pilasters present on the executed building.
Perhaps the most unusual thing about the New State Paper Office is that it was built in a style never before practiced by Soane. The new building was based on the palazzo architecture of the Italian Renaissance. The bracketed cornice, channelled quoins, neat, horizontal rows of windows, rusticated basement and prominent entrance were all features of the palazzi that Soane had seen first-hand in Italy during his grand tour. It has been stated that Soane's main inspiration was the Villa Farnese at Caprarola by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-73), but there is little firm evidence to substantiate this claim. One part of the State Paper Office was explicitly Vignolan, though – the main entrance which, although modified by Soane to suit the scale of the new building, was taken from Vignola's Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (1562).
Design for the New State Paper Office with alterations as suggested by Henry Goulburn (SM 82/1/21)
Soane's New State Paper Office was not particularly revolutionary in the practical aspects of its design. Indeed, Nash's attempt was arguably more so – he had suggested that the book presses be made of incombustible materials (Bath stone with perforated iron or copper shelves) and proposed a system of heating the library with warm air similar to the method designed for the Edinburgh Register House by Robert and James Adam. But the real significance of the new building rested on its external appearance. The New State Paper Office has been credited, alongside Charles Barry's (1795-1860) Travellers Club, with introducing the palazzo style of architecture to London, a mode that would flourish in the nineteenth century in the guise of clubs, banks, townhouses and commercial premises.
The main entrance to the New State Paper Office, based on a design by Vignola (SM Vol. 61/91)
The reasons for Soane's sudden stylistic change have never been satisfactorily determined, although various suggestions have been made. Arthur Bolton argued that he was inspired by the young Charles Barry. M. H. Port proposed that he was led towards an astylar composition by the mandate of making the building of brick with stone dressings. Most recently, David McKinstry has claimed that Soane wanted to emulate the architecture of Inigo Jones in the continuation of a 'national tradition'. The Soane Office drawings for the New State Paper Office have now been catalogued and may hold the key to answering this question. One thing that is for certain is that the New State Paper Office cements Soane's reputation as an innovative and progressive designer operating at the forefront of architecture in his period.
The New State Paper Office was demolished in 1862 to make way for the new Foreign and India Offices.
The New State Paper Office has been catalogued as part of Money, Power and Politics, a two-year project to catalogue Soane's drawings for public buildings made in his role as an Attached Architect to the Office of Works. The project is funded by the Pilgrim Trust and the cataloguers are Tom Drysdale and Jill Lever.


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More than a year ago, when Karl Rove and President Bush began planning the Republican National Convention, they picked New York City in early September so that the event would flow into the third anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.
Some Republicans said then that Mr. Bush might even visit ground zero, despite the risk of appearing to make political use of the tragedy. Most others said the convention's timing would remind voters of what the campaign considers Mr. Bush's finest hour -- the moment he grabbed the bullhorn in the rubble at the tip of Manhattan and shouted that the people who had knocked down the buildings would hear from him soon.
But now it turns out that Mr. Bush may not spend a single night in the city that helped transform his presidency. At this point, the unofficial plan is for him to arrive in Manhattan sometime on Thursday, Sept. 2, the final day of the four-day convention, deliver his acceptance speech that night, then leave immediately for Pennsylvania.
Campaign officials say that the schedule could still change, and that Mr. Bush may have a brief New York sleepover in the end. But either way, the incumbent president has no plans to visit ground zero, or to hang around in his room at the Waldorf-Astoria for days watching the party on television.
So if this will not be the shortest time a presidential nominee has spent at a nominating convention -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not even go to the Democratic National Convention in 1944, during World War II -- it is close. Senator John Kerry spent two days at his party's convention in Boston last month; Mr. Bush's father spent four days at the 1992 Republican convention in Houston.
Republicans acknowledge that one reason for the president's quick drop-by is their concern that he not be seen as taking advantage of the deaths of 3,000 people. What seemed like a good idea a year and a half ago, before Mr. Bush put on a flight suit and declared major combat operations in Iraq at an end, does not seem like such a good idea in the highly charged political environment now. ''They are being very sensitive not to exploit 9/11,'' said one Republican close to the campaign.
That doesn't mean Mr. Bush and other convention speakers won't mention it, and often, from the podium.
''You can't not have it,'' said Matthew Dowd, a senior political adviser to Mr. Bush. ''It would be like Roosevelt not talking about Pearl Harbor.''
But as Ken Mehlman, Mr. Bush's campaign manager, put it, ''You talk about it as an important event that the country shared, and you talk about it in an appropriate and tasteful way.''
Republicans said there were also tactical and logistical reasons for Mr. Bush's speedy convention trip. The last time anyone checked, New York was not a swing state, and polls show Mr. Kerry trouncing Mr. Bush there by double digits. The president's advisers point out the obvious: it is politically foolish to waste time in New York.
The advisers noted that Mr. Bush was also likely to alienate the city by lingering and tying up traffic, blocking streets and further inciting what could be the biggest street demonstrations at a political convention since the Democrats gathered in Chicago in 1968.
A quick exit would underscore the tone of Mr. Bush's campaign, the advisers said, which is that he is running hard in a tied race for his political life. They insisted that his getaway was not an insult to New York -- a city that Mr. Bush never liked before Sept. 11, 2001, but that he warmed to when he met with firefighters and other rescue workers after the attacks.
''It's not a statement that he dislikes New York City,'' the Republican close to the campaign said. ''It's a statement that he's going to work.''
The last time anyone checked, Pennsylvania was indeed a swing state.
Over all, Mr. Bush's advisers say they remain happy with the choice of New York. The city has underwritten many of the costs of the convention. To Mr. Rove, the gathering will be an opportunity to journey into the citadel of the Democrats and make an in-your-face statement about the strength of the president and his party.
''Karl wanted to go into the heart of the opposition's territory and show that Bush could have a successful convention in New York,'' the Republican said.
In the meantime, Mr. Bush is working on his acceptance speech at his ranch, but plans to start campaigning next Thursday for the week leading into New York.
As for Franklin Roosevelt, he delivered his acceptance speech in 1944 by radio from a private railroad car in San Diego, and he said the war left him no time to campaign.
But only up to a point. ''I shall, however, feel free to report to the people the facts about matters of concern to them, and especially to correct any misrepresentation,'' he said.
Photo: President Bush with rescue workers in New York on Sept. 14, 2001. (Photo by Associated Press)


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NEW YORK -- Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy gushed after the game about his team's situational hitting and offered a warm welcome back not only for starter Jhoulys Chacin, but the right-hander's improved fastball command. New York Mets manager Terry Collins was spouting off, too, following the Mets' 6-2 defeat to the Rockies on Tuesday night at Citi Field. But he was focused on what his team had lost rather than anything it had found. Chacin gave the Rockies a strong start in his first appearance since May 1, and his hitters eventually made sure Mets starter Chris Young was far from perfect with a four-run sixth inning during their third straight win. The Mets dropped their third in a row, losing Collins in the process, as he was ejected in the fifth inning. After the game, Collins held a team meeting, later saying he was not pleased with some of the club's sloppy play on a night that began with starter Young throwing five perfect innings. "I'...
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Hillary Clinton on becoming the first female president
The media has mostly buried coverage of Hillary Clinton's ongoing book tour because of the important foreign conflicts around the world, like the chaos in Iraq, Russia cutting natural gas supplies to Ukraine, and the capture of a man involved in the Benghazi attacks.
But, as hosts Ben Shapiro and David Boze point out, Hillary's tour is giving us an excellent preview of her upcoming run for president. Clinton is being very moderate, giving vanilla answers on everything from legalized marijuana to Benghazi.
Clinton appeared in Seattle on Wednesday night. Supporters lined up around the block at the University of Washington bookstore to get a signed copy of "Hard Choices" (which sold an underwhelming 85,000 copies in the first week; her publisher expected 150,000 copies to sell).
In fact, Shapiro pointed to one particularly boring answer Clinton gave on legalized marijuana as evidence of her middle-of-the-road answers to questions from reporters.
"We have at least two states that are experimenting with [recreational marijuana]; I want to wait and see what the result is," she told CNN.
"Hillary Clinton thinks she's going to Cream of Wheat her way to the presidency," Shapiro said. "Hillary is obviously campaigning from the middle at this point. She does not see a threat from her left. Which is funny, because she got beat in 2008 from her left. Her own base thinks she's hackneyed."
Hillary Clinton broke from that middle-of-the-road pandering, however, in a recent interview on CNN with Christiane Amanpour. One answer that she gave to a question from Amanpour revealed the real – and ridiculous – platform Clinton will run on in 2016.
"You suggest basically that some of the political opposition to Barack Obama could have something to do with the color of his skin. Do you agree with that? What do you think about that?" Amanpour asked.
Clinton, like a good mystery writer, left the twist for the end:
"Well, I can't read the minds of all of the opposition. But some of it is virulent and really in my view quite detached from the job that not only this president is doing, or any president has to do," she said. "It's really a hard job. And you're not going to agree, I don't care who you are, with everything any president does. There are many reasons why people are opposed to political figures. I felt when I ran in 2008, there were people opposed to me because I was a woman."
Say it again, Hillary.
"I felt when I ran in 2008, there were people opposed to me because I was a woman."
So, there you have it – a perfect example of how the Clinton campaign and the media will work in partnership to send the message that if you don't help elect the first woman president, you're sexist.
"She doesn't want to take away the victim card that the left likes to play," Boze said. "Then she has to attach herself to Barack Obama. 'Some people oppose me merely because I'm a woman.' How many people do that? Why were there such big fans of Sarah Palin?
"Hillary there allows Amanpour to do the majority of the work," by asking the race/sex question, Boze commented. "Then she's able to tie herself into victim knots by the end of the whole thing."
Clinton's answer outraged Shapiro, who threatened to harm himself is he has to hear a Democrat – again – use race or sex as a means to further their political career.
"How often are we going to sit here and pretended that America is a deeply racist country when Barack Obama is just a really bad president? How many times are we going to sit around and pretend people oppose Hillary because she has a va-hoo-hoo as opposed to because she's dramatically unqualified and she stunk at her job as Secretary of State?
"If her name were Joe Rodham Clinton, no one would care. No one would be interested in her. The only reason anyone is mildly interested in Hillary is because of her womb. Eighteen percent of people according to Gallup believe Hillary should be elected president because she has a hoo-hoo."
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The super low reviews on this product, are in my opinion, mostly because this mascara has been so hyped and touted as the best thing since sliced bread. We have such high expectations, so as a result, any downfall to this mascara is magnified.
This isn't the best mascara I've ever tried, but it isn't the worst, either. I bought 'very black', and found that it coated my lashes very well and defined them without clumping. Almost a 'false eyelash' effect. The one reason why I wouldn't purchase this again is the simple fact that it has no staying power at all, it flakes and smears around my eyes by the end of the day.
I can see why this must have been a revolutionary product 'back in the day', but by today's high tech beauty standards, it's a completely ordinary product.
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Great Lash mascara was one of my first mascaras I tried ( sicne it was cheap). Since I LOVE Dramatic false looking lases this product does nothing to give length or volume. This product is okay if youre looking for the "natural" just there to use mascara. This doesnt hold my curl and straightens my lashes after I curl them. Overall this product pretty sucked and i would not repurchase this ever again.
Every magazine always raves about this mascara, so I decided to give it a try. But I was disappointed. It does nothing for my eyelashes. If your looking for just a simple gloss on your lashes, then it might be good. But i have long eyelashes and mostly look for a mascara to define and add fullness, and this mascara does not do this. My eyelashes look almost the same with it on as they do with out it.
This is a great everyday mascara - there are some blue pigments in the formula that bring out the whites of your eyes, making them look brighter and making me look more awake. The formula doesn't clump or flake on me, and it makes my eyelashes look longer since the color deposits along the length of them.
It doesn't volumize or lengthen, but I don't need that. This is a great mascara.
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I do generally keep a tube of this around even though I don't really like it--Just because it is cheap and I can keep it in my purse or desk at work for an emergency. So, I put that I would repurchase even though it is not great. I don't want a $17 tube of Lancome in my purse or desk or travel kit because it will dry out and go to waste. I don't feel bad about having this lying around and I don't use it much because I think it takes too long to dry and has caused me to have to repair my other makeup numerous times when I blinked or opened my eye too wide and got it up in my eye shadow. Besides that, it doesn't produce nearly as pretty a set of lashes as Hypnose by Lancome.
This mascara is supposed to be THE mascara to use from a drugstore but I was totally underwhelmed, if not unhappy. I didn't like the brush and the formula itself seemed to clump and flake. Overall, I didn't like it.
I worked as a model for over ten years and many makeup artists do have this in their case but there are many mascaras out there that I feel are much better. In fact, even Maybelline makes others that I feel are superior such as Full and Soft. I constantly have people ask what mascara I am wearing when I wear that and I prefer to buy that over more expensive ones because it has a nice brush, it does the trick and I don't mind throwing it out every 3 months because it's so cheap.
I actually really like this product. I have a hard time with mascaras actually working for me, this one does and its cheap! I use the blackest black shade and at first it looked really dark but I got used to it and I love it. I've given a couple other mascara's a try since but always go back to this one!
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I've tried a couple of name brand mascaras, and picked this up at Wal Mart 2 days ago. It's been the ONLY mascara for me that's actually lifted my lashes and kept them lifted with the help of an eyelash curler. The others seemed to weigh my lashes down. I'll continue using this.
i really dont like this mascara. i do not understand why all of these magazines are naming it the best ever. after a single coat, it clumped my lashes so i couldnt do anything with them. gee thanks great lash, you aint so great.
I'm African-American so I already have black eyelashes. I use mascara for the needed everyday va-voom. I always purchase this in Blackest Black. What can I say? It does it job, which is to make lashes "very black." If you want anything else, go somewhere else because it is NOT non-clumping, it does NOT give the appearance of longer lashes, it is not glossy...the only thing it does is make your lashes Blackest Black and that is it.
Personally though, that's all I want so I'll stick with this until I decide to venture away from it. Dirt cheap, why get anything else?
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A method for controlling the transmission of information between components, preferably in a motor vehicle, these components being either data sources or data sinks, wherein a double cascade separates the data transmission of the service components and from that of the music components. The data of the two data cascades can be mixed by means provided in the audio/video sink.
1. Method for controlling the transmission of information between electronic components, which either supply information or process it and which are connected to each other and to a controlling component by a control bus, wherein a first component for transmitting or receiving information, a second component for transmitting or receiving information and at least one component for processing information have an input for the control bus, and signals which actuate a switching device, which, when actuated, switches at least one of the above components into a transmitting or a receiving state, said method comprising:
actively connecting said first and second components and said at least one component for processing information by means of the controlling component;
providing a first data line and a second data line operating independently of each other;
feeding the information of the first actively connected, transmitting component into the first data line; and
feeding the information of the second actively connected transmitting component into the second data line.
2. Method for controlling the transmission of information according to claim 1 wherein the data lines connect the electronic components in the form of a cascade, and wherein data are sent through via a bypass circuit inside the nonactive components of the cascade.
3. Method for controlling the transmission of information according to claim 1 wherein the data lines transmit information which is in in at least one form from the group consisting of analog or digital.
4. Method for controlling the transmission of information according to claim 1 wherein standard transmission protocols are used for the transmission of the data between two components over the data lines.
5. Method for controlling the transmission of information according to claim 1 wherein data transmissions in the two data lines proceed serially from point to point with self-timed encoding.
6. Method for controlling the transmission of information according to claim 1 wherein signals entering the processing component originate from separate data lines.
7. Method for controlling the transmission of information according to claim 1 wherein signals entering the processing component originate from a data line with several communications channels.
8. Method for controlling the transmission of information according to claim 1 wherein the data line is a plastic fiber-optic waveguide and in that the data input and output are connected via optocouplers to an electrical switch.
9. Method for controlling the transmission of information according to claim 1 wherein the components are controlled by a separate control component.
10. Method according to claim 1, wherein components which are not end components have a bypass circuit and an input for the control bus, signals of which actuate a switching device, which, when actuated, switches the components into a sending or receiving state.
11. Method according to claim 1, wherein digital information is sent through the bypass circuit without timing regeneration, the switching being carried out electrically or optically.
12. Method according to claim 1, wherein a control function for the control contains bus is integrated into a component.
13. Method according to claim 1, wherein the processing component contains means for mixing and outputting the incoming signals.
14. Method according to claim 1, wherein the components have a circuit which is controlled by signals from the control bus and which connects the inputs and outputs for the data to be sent or received to different data lines.
15. Apparatus for controlling the transmission of information between electronic components, said apparatus comprising:
first and second components for transmitting or receiving information;
at least one processing component for processing information;
a controlling component;
a control bus actively connecting said first and second components, said processing component, and said controlling component, wherein the first and second components and the at least one processing component for processing information have an input for the control bus, and signals which actuate a switching device, which, when actuated, switches at least one of the above components into a transmitting or a receiving state; and
first and second data lines independently receiving information from respective transmitting components and connecting the respective transmitting component, said controlling component, or said processing component.
The invention proceeds from a method for controlling the transmission of data between electronic components, preferably in a motor vehicle, which either supply information or process it and which are connected to each other and to a controlling component by a control bus.
Methods for controlling the transmission of data between electronic components in a motor vehicle are already known. In spite of a high level of integration, the space required for motor vehicle components in the area of information and entertainment is increasing as a result of increased functionality and complexity. This leads to networked systems and decentralized components. It is necessary to transmit not only control and monitoring information but also audio and video data as well as data such as those stored on CD-ROM's. A modular concept, which allows the data to be transmitted over coaxial cables or fiber-optic waveguides, usually made of plastic, is required for the transmission of these data. For cost reasons, standard communications protocols are used for these transmissions.
A networking of components in motor vehicles in the form of a star topology is known. In this design, several data sources are connected to a data sink. The number of these sources cannot be exceeded by the limited number of free inputs. In addition, a large amount of space is required, and the large number of plug contacts which the data sink must have is also disadvantageous.
Optical ring structures are also known in which both data and control/monitoring information are transmitted over the transmission medium. Each component, whether data source or data sink, has an optoelectronic converter at its input and an electro-optic converter at its output. A protocol processor makes it possible for the data to be read in and out. In a ring structure, the data stream must be timed. The disadvantage of a ring topology and of the transmission of all the data over the same medium is the fact that a break at any point puts the entire network out of service. Components in a ring structure which have no data burden of their own beyond information for control and monitoring, e.g., remote controls, have an over- sized interface.
According to the invention, two components for transmitting information and at least one component for processing the information are actively connected by means of the controlling component. Independently operating first and second data lines are provided. The information of the first actively connected transmitting component is fed into the first data line, and the information of the second actively connected transmitting component is fed into the second data line.
This method offers the advantage that pure data transmission is disconnected from the control and monitoring function, and that a common control line connects two components or groups of components, which are connected separately to a first and a second data line. Because of the doubled data lines, the number of transmittable channels is increased, so that at least two sources can send data to the processing component, e.g., the audio sink, simultaneously. As long as no restrictions are imposed by the protocol used, it is also possible, in the case of audio data, for example, to transmit 4 mono signals and thus four different source signals simultaneously. A break in one of the data lines leads to the loss of the data of the components on the data line in question which are on the other side of the break with respect to the data source, but the rest of the components can continue to operate normally.
By providing a two-fold cascade structure, in which the sequences of the components are arbitrary and in which the number of components is not limited by the number of plug-in sites, advantages are achieved with respect to data transmission. The term "cascade" refers here to the idea of coupling components which have a common data and control line to each other in a point-to-point manner. It is also advantageous that the data streams are conducted via bypass circuits through the individual electronic components which are not actively connected to the circuit. This has the advantage that a simple circuit is able to transmit the data between the components, and no active timing regeneration with a phase-locked loop is required. Thus the electronic complexity for a component of the data network is reduced.
Because of the possibility of using the cascade both for analog and for digital data transmission, the method is flexible in its application and can be quickly upgraded from the current state of the art to meet future, higher requirements.
The method is suitable for the transmission of data by means of standard communications protocols. It is advantageous for the data to be transmitted with self-timed encoding.
When standard protocols are used, it is possible if desired for data from the two separate data lines or from two separate channels to be processed.
The best way to realize the method is with fiber-optic waveguide data lines, where the bypass switch is actuated electrically, after the light has been converted. This is a low-cost solution, although the use of an optical switch would certainly have to be evaluated in the future.
The components for implementing the method advantageously have a connection to the control bus and also a connection to the data line in question, the connection to the data line being actively established by the control bus.
It is an advantage of the double cascade, that, in the case of audio transmission, for example, the data lines can terminate in a mixer in the audio sink. The mixer then makes it possible to superimpose a signal from one source on the signal from another.
It is also advantageous to design the components in such a way that one switch can be used to access several data lines.
FIG. 1 shows a networked system according to the invention.
FIG. 2 shows the design of a source component in the data cascade.
FIG. 3 shows an exemplary embodiment of the cascading system.
FIG. 4 shows a circuit for an audio sink in the double cascade; and
FIG. 5 shows a design without a bypass circuit.
FIG. 1 shows a network with a double cascade system consisting of cascades K1 and K2. The networked system according to the invention assumes that the control/monitoring data are separated in the communications sense from the useful data. The data are transmitted over data lines 3. The transmission itself advantageously uses a digital communications protocol, which uses self- timed encoding. An encoding scheme of this type is, for example, biphase mark encoding, which makes it possible for data to be transmitted synchronously over data line 3. Control is imposed via the MMI (Man-Machine Interface) master, which can also be integrated into a component. The master represents the interface with the user. An MMI master is characterized in that it monitors and possibly stores in nonvolatile memory all of the conditions which are relevant to the networking of the data. Components 9 are either data sources 1 or data sinks 2. Within a cascade, each component 9 has a data output 12 and a data input 11. Both input and output are connected to source 1 by a bypass 10. The end components can be data sources, which then have only a data output 12. Components 9 which are not data sources or data sinks but which merely require control information or merely make such control information available are connected to control bus 5. In general, a data sink is located at the end of a cascade. Data sources and data sinks contain all the necessary sending and receiving interfaces. The sequence in the data cascade is arbitrary if there is only one data sink.
FIG. 2 shows the design of an arbitrary component 9. In the component, control/monitoring bus 5 is connected to a bus interface 16, which is controlled by a microprocessor. Data source 1 with its encoding circuit communicates with the control unit via the microprocessor system. Component 9 has a bypass circuit 10. Input 11, which in this case is connected to a fiber-optic waveguide, must be provided with an opto-electronic converter 14. Switch 13 can connect input 11 to output 12. In general, the MMI master activates the source, such as a CD changer, by sending a command over the control bus. In the case of a navigation device, data source 1 informs the master of the data cascade that driving instructions are available by sending the master a message via the control/monitoring bus that data are standing by for transmission to the data sink. The instruction actively to connect this data source arrives via the control/monitoring bus. Then switch 13 to the data source is flipped, and the signals of the data source pass via electro-optic converter 15 to output 12 and data line 3. There is always one data source active in the cascade; all the other components pass the data stream through their bypass circuits 10. An essential feature of the bypass circuit is its design as a simple circuit component, which allows the data stream to pass through without timing regeneration. The switch itself can be a CMOS switch, but it is also conceivable as an alternative that optical bypass switches could be used. The maximum number of components allowed in a data cascade is determined by the quality of transmission lines 3 and of interface circuits 14, 15. When suitable interface circuits and fiber-optic waveguide systems, e.g., plastic fiber-optic waveguides, are used, it is possible for up to 10 components to be hooked up to the cascade. Relative to the cascade, it is possible to distinguish between four different types of components 9:
(a) Data sinks (end components): The data sink has only an input 11.
(b) Cascadable data sources: Each component has a data input 11 and a data output 12. In addition, a bypass circuit 10 is integrated into the component; this circuit consists essentially of a two-way switch, made according to CMOS technology, for example, with two positions: internal source active//arbitrary external source active. The position of the switch is monitored by the microprocessor system with its bus interface and controlled by MMI master 8 over control/monitoring bus 5. If there is a problem with the bus interface, the switch is automatically shifted back to the default setting, namely, pass-through.
(c) Noncascadable data source (end component) An end component has only a data output 12. Precisely one end component can be present in each system. Whether a component is designed as an end component or not depends in general on the configuration probability and on the probable installation site.
(d) Components which do not process data within the cascade: Components which have no connection for a data cascade can still be operated in the network by way of control and monitoring bus 5.
In principle, the cascade is suitable for both coaxial cables and fiber-optic waveguides. In both cases, an interface circuit (e.g., potential separation, signal conversion from optical to electrical, etc.) is required. In the cascade, the same communications protocol should be used for all of the components, but in the case of audio transmission, different sampling rates can be present in the components. The allowable sampling rates depend only on the communications protocol used and on the PLL range of the data sink. It may well be advisable to use different communications protocols or transmission media for the two cascades. For example, in the case of a service cascade, transmission can occur over coaxial cables, whereas in a music cascade, fiber-optic waveguides would carry the transmissions.
FIG. 3 shows a concrete embodiment of a network in an automobile. On dashboard A of the motor vehicle there is a car radio with integrated control function. This audio sink is connected by way of a CAN bus 5 to the components, some of which are installed in the trunk. The upper data cascade is a service and information cascade I for the data components which need to transmit data only for certain periods of time to the audio sink; such components could include, for example, a telephone I1, a traffic message channel I2 for digital radio messages, or a navigation device I3. The music components are on side E; these include data sources such as a radio receiver E1, a CD player with changer E2, etc. The data of these components are sent through fiber- optic waveguides 3 to the data sink, in this case the radio. In a double cascade, the audio sink must contain a processing unit to process the data from the two cascade branches. The Controller Area Network [CAN] is used as basis for the control/monitoring bus. The communications protocol for the audio data of the two cascades can be, for example, an S/P-DIF protocol, which means that a stereo channel is available for each one.
With this arrangement, it is possible to superimpose a news report from the service cascade onto an audio playback.
FIG. 4 shows the details of the audio and data sink. The data streams of data lines 3 are converted optoelectronically 14 and sent on to code converter 17. The code converter converts the S/P-DIF protocol to the internally used three-wire bus I2 S. To match the sampling rate or sampling frequency and to synchronize the signals, a sampling rate converter 18 must be installed in one of the two cascades directly in front of the sink. The timing for this unit is specified either by the signal of the other cascade, that is, by an internal or external data source of the other group, or by internal processor timing. DSP system 19 can then mix or process the digital data streams in any desired way. Internal data sources such as those which normally occur in a car radio are not shown in FIG. 4. As a result of the double cascade, it is possible for a service message to be mixed with the current music source. After digital/analog conversion 21, the signal is ready for output. The voice output can occur as desired on any channel (left or right channel; 1 or 2). Separate tone adjustments for each source are very easy to realize by the central data processing function in the audio sink. Because the actual data processing takes place exclusively in the audio sink, expensive signal processors are needed in only one place. In addition, the double cascade is compatible with any single cascade. When a mixing of two service sources is required in addition to the mixing of service and music components, there exists the possibility, in the case of service sources which require only one mono channel, of transmitting both data streams synchronously by means of a standard communications protocol such as S/P-DIF. In this case, however, the complexity of the service components increases, because the two sources must be synchronized for the data transmission. For this purpose, a sampling rate converter is required, as well as a unit which makes it possible to select the channel by way of the control bus.
FIG. 5 shows an embodiment which omits the bypass circuit in components 9. Data sources 1 can be connected by way of switches 13 to data lines 3. In between, an optoelectric or electro-optic converter 14 must be inserted for optical transmission. Switch 13 is actuated via a control unit 16 by control bus 5. The switches can connect data sources 1 and/or data sinks 2 either to the upper or to the lower data line, so that two different transmitters 1 can send their information to two different data lines 3. A circuit connection of this type, however, can be used to only a limited extent for optical transmission, because connection points A entail a certain cost. A circuit of this type will be therefore be used for electrical transmissions without converter elements 14.
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