CA2137495A1 - Control System for an Electronic Postage Meter Having a Programmable Application Specific Integrated Circuit - Google Patents

Control System for an Electronic Postage Meter Having a Programmable Application Specific Integrated Circuit

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CA2137495A1
CA2137495A1 CA2137495A CA2137495A CA2137495A1 CA 2137495 A1 CA2137495 A1 CA 2137495A1 CA 2137495 A CA2137495 A CA 2137495A CA 2137495 A CA2137495 A CA 2137495A CA 2137495 A1 CA2137495 A1 CA 2137495A1
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timer
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volatile memory
microprocessor
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CA2137495C (en
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Young W. Lee
Sungwon Moh
Arno Muller
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Pitney Bowes Inc
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Young W. Lee
Sungwon Moh
Arno Muller
Pitney Bowes Inc.
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F12/00—Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures
    • G06F12/02—Addressing or allocation; Relocation
    • G06F12/06—Addressing a physical block of locations, e.g. base addressing, module addressing, memory dedication
    • G06F12/0646—Configuration or reconfiguration
    • G06F12/0653—Configuration or reconfiguration with centralised address assignment
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00258—Electronic hardware aspects, e.g. type of circuits used
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00314—Communication within apparatus, personal computer [PC] system, or server, e.g. between printhead and central unit in a franking machine
    • G07B2017/00322—Communication between components/modules/parts, e.g. printer, printhead, keyboard, conveyor or central unit
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G07B2017/00604—Printing of advert or logo
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00733—Cryptography or similar special procedures in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00741—Cryptography or similar special procedures in a franking system using specific cryptographic algorithms or functions
    • G07B2017/0075—Symmetric, secret-key algorithms, e.g. DES, RC2, RC4, IDEA, Skipjack, CAST, AES

Abstract

The electronic postage meter includes a printing unit which is responsive to a plurality of motors for printing of a postage indicia in response to a control circuit.
The control circuit is comprised of a programmable microprocessor in bus communication with an accounting means having memory units for accounting for the postage printed by the printing unit responsive to the programming of the microprocessor. An integrated circuit includes an address decoding module means for generating a unique combination of ASIC control signals in response to a respective address placed on the bus by the microprocessor. A timer register is responsive to ones of the control signals from the address decoding module to enable writing of the timer data into the timer registers by the microprocessor. The timer unit is responsive to the timer data for generating one of a plurality of timing signals in accordance with timer data. The data also includes motor data. Prime motor register units are responsive to other ones of the control signals from the address decoding module to enable writing of the motor data into the timer registers by the microprocessor. A
motor control unit is responsive to the motor data for generating a plurality of motor control signals in accordance with the motor data. Also included are a plurality of non-volatile memory units. The non-volatile memory unit responsive to other ones of the control signals from the address decoding module to enable the non-volatile memory units for writing data into the non-volatile memory unit by the microprocessor. The integrated circuit further includes a non-volatile memory access timer unit for causing the control signal from the address decoding module enabling the non-volatile memory units to stay active for a predetermined time of the non-volatile memory access timer.
CA002137495A 1993-12-09 1994-12-07 Control system for an electronic postage meter having a programmable application specific integrated circuit Expired - Fee Related CA2137495C (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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US08/163,629 1993-12-09
US08/163,629 US5552991A (en) 1993-12-09 1993-12-09 Control system for an electronic pastage meter having a programmable application specific intergrated circuit

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CA2137495A1 true CA2137495A1 (en) 1995-06-10
CA2137495C CA2137495C (en) 1998-08-18

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EP (1) EP0657817B1 (en)
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EP0657817B1 (en) 2002-04-03
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DE69430292D1 (en) 2002-05-08
CA2137495C (en) 1998-08-18
DE69430292T2 (en) 2002-11-21

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