Relay device
A replay device includes: multiple transceiver units that transmits and receives a communication frame, each transceiver unit including a register in which at least data indicating a set-up content relating to an operation of a respective transceiver unit is written; a register access unit that is connected with each transceiver unit through an interface; and a control unit that transmits a control message to the register access unit. The control message includes access target information for designating one or more access target transceiver units, and access content information indicating an access content to a register of each access target transceiver unit. The register access unit sets the one or more target transceiver units designated by the access target information, and perform an access to the register of each access target transceiver unit according to the access content.
1. A relay device comprising:
a plurality of transceiver units that transmits and receives a communication frame, each of the plurality of transceiver units including a register in which at least data indicating a set-up content relating to an operation of a respective transceiver unit is written;
a register access unit that is connected with each of the plurality of transceiver units through an interface for each of the plurality of transceiver units; and
a control unit that transmits a control message to the register access unit, wherein:
the control message includes access target information for designating one or more access target transceiver units as an access target among the plurality of transceiver units, and access content information indicating an access content to a register of each of the one or more access target transceiver units; and
the register access unit sets the one or more target transceiver units designated by the access target information included in the control message among the plurality of transceiver units as the access target, and perform an access to the register of each of the one or more access target transceiver units according to the access content indicated by the access content information included in the control message.
2. The relay device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the access target information includes a plurality of command information items associated with the plurality of transceiver units, respectively; and
each of the plurality of command information items indicates whether a respective transceiver unit is the access target.
3. The relay device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the register access unit transmits an access message to the one or more access target transceiver units, in order to perform the access to the register of each of the one or more access target transceiver units according to the access content indicated by the access content information included in the control message;
the access message includes identification information of the transceiver units and the access content information;
the register access unit generates the access message to be transmitted to the one or more access target transceiver units by replacing the access target information in the control message transmitted from the control unit with the identification information of the one or more access target transceiver units.
4. The relay device according to claim 1 , wherein:
when performing a write access on the register of each of the one or more access target transceiver units, the register access unit performs a read access on the register to read out data written by the write access; and
the register access unit determines whether the data read out by the read access matches the data written by the write access.
5. The relay device according to claim 4 , wherein:
when determining that the data read out by the read access does not match the data written by the write access, the register access unit performs a same write access to the register as a previous write access once again.