Data transmission/reception installation with parallel/serial and serial/parallel character conversion for data exchange between communicating data processing systems

摘要

A data transmission/reception installation with parallel/serial and serial/parallel character conversion is disclosed which relieves the respective local data processing installation of all tasks connected with data transmission procedures. Both a temporal vitiation of the data processing operations as well as a reduction of the memory capacity available for the data processing operations are avoided. The data transmission/reception installation disclosed has a data transmission processor arranged within the respective data processing system between the local data processing installation and a data modem terminating a data line for controlling data transmission and reception procedures. The data transmission processor contains at least one microprocessor and a transcribable program memory. A cyclic redundancy check generator is provided by means of which a data transmission and reception monitoring corresponding to a stored test program can be carried out.