MES 80--A MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEM FOR RAILWAY SIGNALLING

Microcomputers permit the use of decentralized control systems wherever process computers were previously employed. Owing to the more exacting demands which the signalling process places on the control equipment (e.g. in respect of temperature and reliability), a special microcomputer system (MES 80) was developed by the signalling division of Siemens for the requirements of reliable process control. Its main features are an enlarged temperature range of minus 40 to plus 85 deg. C at the module and an instruction cycle time of 1.3 microseconds for the central processor. The system helps to reduce costs and time, and gives economical operation even when used with smaller interlocking frames.

• Corporate Authors:

  Hestra Verlag

  Holzhofallee 33, Postfach 4244
  6100 Darmstadt 1,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Stoffregen, D
• Publication Date: 1979-12

Language

• German

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 871-874
• Serial:
  • Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: Hestra Verlag

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computers; Minicomputers; Process control; Reliability; Signaling; Technology
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• Old TRIS Terms: Interlocking; Process control computers
• Subject Areas: Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00310638
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Railways
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 21 1980 12:00AM