Lighting control system and lighting control method

By designing a lighting control system, using the transmission unit to obtain hardware device status information and send it to the backplane logic device, the complexity and efficiency problems caused by manual burning configuration in the prior art are solved, and automated lighting control is realized, and testing efficiency is improved.

CN120086100AActive Publication Date: 2025-06-03INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD

Patent Information

Application Number
CN202510552276.9
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Applications(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-04-29
Publication Date
2025-06-03
Estimated Expiration
2045-04-29

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Technical Problem

In the prior art, user flash memory is manually burned and configured according to different topological scenarios, resulting in increased lighting control complexity and reduced testing efficiency.

Method used

A lighting control system is designed, including a transmission unit, a hardware device unit, a backplane logic device, a controller unit and a hard disk status light. The status information of the hardware device unit is obtained through the transmission unit, and packaged as a communication control frame to send it to the backplane logic device, which replaces manual burning configuration to realize automatic lighting control.

Benefits of technology

The complexity of lighting control is reduced, the testing efficiency of lighting control system is improved, and the backplane logic device can automatically generate lighting signals based on status information.

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Abstract

The invention discloses a lighting control system and a lighting control method, and relates to the technical field of servers, the lighting control system comprises a transmission unit, a hardware equipment unit, a backboard logic device, a controller unit and a hard disk status lamp, the transmission unit obtains status information of the initialized hardware equipment unit, and sends the status information to the backboard logic device; the state information is packaged into the communication control frame, the communication control frame is sent to the backboard logic device, and the mode that the state information of the hardware equipment unit is obtained through the transmission unit replaces the mode that burning configuration is manually conducted on a corresponding user flash memory, so that the lighting control complexity is reduced, and the lighting control efficiency is improved. Therefore, the test efficiency of the lighting control system is improved.
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Technical Field

[0001] This application relates to the technical field of servers, and particularly to a lighting control system and a lighting control method. Background Art

[0002] The lighting of server hard disks refers to multiple indicator lights on the server hard disks, which are used to display the working status of the hard disks. These indicator lights usually include different colors, and each color represents a different status of the hard disk. To ensure the normal operation and data security of server hard disks, it is necessary to regularly check the status of the hard disk indicator lights. Therefore, the lighting control of server hard disks in different states will be particularly important.

[0003] In the related art, when performing lighting control of server hard disks, it is necessary to manually burn and configure the corresponding user flash memories according to different topology scenarios in advance, and then perform lighting control. However, in the related art, the method of manually burning and configuring the corresponding user flash memories according to different topology scenarios increases the complexity of lighting control, thereby reducing the test efficiency of the lighting control system. Summary of the Invention

[0004] This application provides a lighting control system and a lighting control method to at least solve the problem that in the related art, the method of manually burning and configuring the corresponding user flash memories according to different topology scenarios increases the complexity of lighting control, thereby reducing the test efficiency of the lighting control system.

[0005] This application provides a lighting control system, including: a transmission unit (101), a hardware device unit (102), a backplane logic device (103), a controller unit (104), and a hard disk status light (105);

[0006] Among them, the transmission unit (101) is communicatively connected between the hardware device unit (102) and the backplane logic device (103); the hardware device unit (102) is communicatively connected to the backplane logic device (103); the controller unit (104) is communicatively connected to the backplane logic device (103); the backplane logic device (103) is communicatively connected to the hard disk status light (105);

[0007] The transmission unit (101) obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit (102), encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device (103).

[0008] This application also provides a lighting control method, which is applied to the above lighting control system and includes:

[0009] A transmission unit, which acquires the status information of the initialized hardware device unit, encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device;

[0010] A controller unit, which sends lighting information to the backplane logic device;

[0011] A backplane logic device, which parses the communication control frame to obtain a first lighting signal, parses the lighting information to obtain a control right identifier and a second lighting signal, and sends the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal to the hard disk status light according to the control right identifier;

[0012] A hard disk status light, which lights up according to the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal.

[0013] Through the lighting control system and the lighting control method provided by the embodiments of the present application, the lighting control system constructed by the transmission unit (101), the hardware device unit (102), the backplane logic device (103), the controller unit (104) and the hard disk status light (105) sends the communication control frame containing the status information of the hardware device unit (102) to the backplane logic device (103) through the transmission unit (101). The method of acquiring the status information of the hardware device unit through the transmission unit replaces the method of manually burning and configuring the corresponding user flash memory, so that the backplane logic device can obtain the corresponding lighting signal according to the status information, reduces the complexity of lighting control, and thus improves the test efficiency of the lighting control system. Description of the Drawings

[0014] In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application, the drawings required for the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application. For those of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

[0015] Figure 1 It is a schematic structural diagram of the lighting control system provided by the embodiments of the present application;

[0016] Figure 2 It is a schematic flow chart of the lighting control method provided by the embodiments of the present application Figure 1 ;

[0017] Figure 3 It is a schematic flow chart of the lighting control method provided by the embodiments of the present application Figure 2 ;

[0018] Figure 4 It is a schematic diagram of the I2C protocol provided by the embodiments of the present application. Detailed Embodiments

[0019] The following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present application without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

[0020] It should be noted that the orientation or positional relationship indicated by the terms "center", "longitudinal", "transverse", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", etc. is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for the convenience of describing the present application and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus cannot be construed as a limitation of the present application. The terms "installation", "connection", and "coupling" should be understood in a broad sense. For example, it can be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; it can be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; it can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and it can be the communication inside two elements. The terms "parallel", "perpendicular", and "equal" include the described situations and situations similar to the described situations, and the range of the similar situations is within the acceptable deviation range, where the acceptable deviation range is determined by those of ordinary skill in the art considering the measurements being discussed and the errors associated with the measurements of specific quantities (i.e., the limitations of the measurement system). For example, "parallel" includes absolute parallelism and approximate parallelism, and the acceptable deviation range of approximate parallelism can be, for example, within 5° deviation; "perpendicular" includes absolute perpendicularity and approximate perpendicularity, and the acceptable deviation range of approximate perpendicularity can also be, for example, within 5° deviation. "Equal" includes absolute equality and approximate equality, and the acceptable deviation range of approximate equality can be, for example, that the difference between the two equal ones is less than or equal to 5% of either of them. For those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in the present application can be understood according to specific situations.

[0021] It should be noted that in the description of the present application, the terms "include", "comprise" or any other variant thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that a process, method, article or device including a series of elements not only includes those elements, but also includes other elements not expressly listed, or further includes elements inherent to such process, method, article or device. The terms "first", "second", etc. in the present application are used to distinguish similar objects, rather than to describe a specific order or sequence.

[0022] The lighting of the server hard drive refers to multiple indicator lights on the server hard drive, which are used to display the working status of the hard drive. These indicator lights usually include different colors, and each color represents a different status of the hard drive. For example, green indicates that the power supply is normal and the server is in a running state; yellow indicates that the server is in a standby mode. To ensure the normal operation and data security of the server hard drive, it is necessary to regularly check the status of the hard drive indicator lights. Therefore, the lighting control of the server hard drive in different states will be particularly important. In the related art, when performing the lighting control of the server hard drive, it is necessary to manually pre-configure the corresponding user flash memory according to different topology scenarios and then perform the lighting control. However, in the related art, the method of manually configuring the corresponding user flash memory according to different topology scenarios increases the complexity of the lighting control, thereby reducing the test efficiency of the lighting control system.

[0023] To solve the above technical problems, the embodiments of the present application propose the following technical concept: The inventor considered a lighting control system composed of a transmission unit, a hardware device unit, a backplane logic device, a controller unit, and a hard drive status light. Based on the transmission unit, a communication control frame containing the status information of the hardware device unit is sent to the backplane logic device. By obtaining the status information of the hardware device unit through the transmission unit, the method of manually configuring the corresponding user flash memory is replaced, enabling the backplane logic device to obtain the corresponding lighting signal according to the status information, reducing the complexity of the lighting control, and thus improving the test efficiency of the lighting control system.

[0024] To enable those skilled in the art of the present technology to better understand the solution of the present application, the following further details the present application in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

[0025] Combined with the specific application environment architecture or specific hardware architecture on which the execution of the lighting control method depends, the specific application environment architecture or specific hardware architecture is described herein. Refer to Figure 1 , Figure 1 which is the structural schematic diagram of the lighting control system provided by the embodiments of the present application.

[0026] As Figure 1 shown, the lighting control system includes: a transmission unit (101), a hardware device unit (102), a backplane logic device (103), a controller unit (104), and a hard drive status light (105).

[0027] Among them, a transmission unit (101) is communicatively connected between a hardware device unit (102) and a backplane logic device (103); the hardware device unit (102) is communicatively connected between the backplane logic device (103); a controller unit (104) is communicatively connected between the backplane logic device (103); the backplane logic device (103) is communicatively connected between a hard disk status light (105).

[0028] The transmission unit (101) obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit (102), encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device (103).

[0029] In this embodiment, the transmission unit (101) includes: a transmission system (1011) and a management bus (1012).

[0030] Among them, the transmission system (1011) is communicatively connected between the hardware device unit (102) and the management bus (1012); the management bus (1012) is communicatively connected between the hardware device unit (102) and the backplane logic device (103).

[0031] The transmission system (1011) obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit (102), encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the management bus (1012).

[0032] In this embodiment, the transmission system (1011) is a BIOS, where the BIOS, that is, the basic input / output system, is software stored on the motherboard.

[0033] In addition, during the power-on self-test phase, the BIOS completes the CPU clock initialization and device enumeration according to the PCIe specification, and constructs a PCIe topology mapping table.

[0034] In this embodiment, the management bus (1012) is a VPP SMBus, where the VPP SMBus is a VPP system management bus, which is a two-wire interface through which various devices can communicate with each other and with other parts of the system.

[0035] Among them, VPP is a kind of lighting interface protocol.

[0036] In this embodiment, the backplane logic device (103) is a backplane CPLD, where the backplane CPLD is a complex programmable logic device of the backplane.

[0037] In this embodiment, the hardware device unit (102) includes: a central processing unit (1021), an expansion card (1022), and a triple-mode card (1023).

[0038] The central processing unit (1021) is communicatively connected to the transmission unit (101).

[0039] In this embodiment, the central processing unit (1021) is a CPU, and the CPU is the final execution unit for information processing and program running.

[0040] The expansion card (1022) is communicatively connected to the transmission unit (101).

[0041] In this embodiment, the expansion card (1022) is a PCIe Switch. The PCIe Switch is a hardware device that provides expansion or aggregation capabilities and allows more devices to be connected to a PCle port.

[0042] The tri-mode card (1023) is communicatively connected to the transmission unit (101).

[0043] In this embodiment, the tri-mode card (1023) is a Tri-mode card. The Tri-mode card refers to a ROC or IOC on a RAID / HBA card that can support three interface modes of PCIe, SAS, and SATA simultaneously.

[0044] In this embodiment, the controller unit (104) includes: a controller (1041) and a serial bus (1042).

[0045] Among them, the controller (1041) is communicatively connected to the serial bus (1042); the serial bus (1042) is communicatively connected to the backplane logic device (103).

[0046] In this embodiment, the controller (1041) can be a BMC or other controllers. The BMC is a baseboard management controller and is the core component in server hardware management. It realizes remote monitoring and management independent of the operating system based on the IPMI protocol.

[0047] In this embodiment, the serial bus (1042) can be an I2C bus. The I2C bus is a simple, two-way, two-wire synchronous serial bus. It has the fewest signal lines among various buses and has functions such as automatic addressing, multi-master clock synchronization, and arbitration.

[0048] In addition, it further includes: a hard disk slot (106); among them, the backplane logic device (103) is communicatively connected to the hard disk slot (106); the hard disk slot (106) is communicatively connected to the hardware device unit (102).

[0049] In this embodiment, the backplane logic device (103) at least includes: a preset protocol interface (1031).

[0050] Among them, a preset protocol interface (1031) is communicatively connected to a hard disk slot (106).

[0051] In this embodiment, the preset protocol interface (1031) can be an NVMe protocol interface or other protocol interfaces.

[0052] Among them, the NVMe protocol interface is a high-speed storage technology architecture jointly composed of a protocol layer and a physical interface layer, and has core features of low latency, high throughput, multi-core parallelism, and scalability.

[0053] In summary, it can be seen that for the lighting control system provided in this embodiment, the lighting control system constructed by the transmission unit (101), the hardware device unit (102), the backplane logic device (103), the controller unit (104), and the hard disk status light (105), the transmission unit (101) sends a communication control frame containing the status information of the hardware device unit (102) to the backplane logic device (103). By obtaining the status information of the hardware device unit through the transmission unit, the method of manually burning and configuring the corresponding user flash memory is replaced, so that the backplane logic device can obtain the corresponding lighting signal according to the status information, reducing the complexity of lighting control, thereby improving the test efficiency of the lighting control system.

[0054] In addition, the lighting control system provided in this embodiment supports adaptive hardware device topology negotiation between the hard disk and expansion cards, three-mode cards, and central processors through a preset protocol interface, realizing high-speed bandwidth interconnection.

[0055] In addition, the lighting control system provided in this embodiment facilitates subsequent debugging and maintenance by displaying the status of each hardware device in real time on the hard disk status light.

[0056] In addition, the lighting control system provided in this embodiment improves the debugging efficiency of the subsequent backplane production line by automatically identifying the topology types of the upstream hardware devices and dynamically loading configurations.

[0057] Figure 2 Schematic flow of the lighting control method provided by the embodiment of the present application Figure 1 , such as Figure 2 shown, the embodiment of the present application provides a lighting control method, and the method is described in detail as follows:

[0058] S201: The transmission unit obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit, encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device.

[0059] In this embodiment, the transmission unit includes a transmission system and a management bus; step S201 specifically includes:

[0060] S2011: The transmission system obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit, encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the management bus.

[0061] In this embodiment, the discussion about the transmission system and the status information has been Figure 1 described in detail in the corresponding embodiment, and will not be elaborated here.

[0062] In this embodiment, the communication control frame at least includes a first address field and a synchronization frame header; correspondingly, the specific process of "the transmission system obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit" in step S2011 includes:

[0063] S20111: Send the first address field to the backplane logic device to establish a first communication link with the backplane logic device.

[0064] S20112: After establishing the first communication link, complete frame synchronization through the synchronization frame header.

[0065] S20113: After completing frame synchronization, obtain the status information of the initialized hardware device unit.

[0066] In this embodiment, the status information includes: topology information, platform identifier, and a first lighting signal.

[0067] In this embodiment, the complete communication control frame includes: First Address Field - Address, Synchronization Frame Header - SyncHead, Platform Identifier - Platform, Topology Information - Topological Type, and First Lighting Signal - VPP_led.

[0068] Among them, the platform identifier is 1 byte, the topology information is 1 byte, and the first lighting signal is N bytes, where N represents the number of hard disks. Exemplarily, N is 8.

[0069] In addition, the detailed description of each piece of information in the complete communication control frame is shown in Table 1.

[0070] Table 1 Description of the Complete Communication Control Frame

[0071]

[0072] S2012: The management bus sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device.

[0073] In this embodiment, the discussion about the management bus and the backplane logic device has been Figure 1 described in detail in the corresponding embodiment, and will not be elaborated here.

[0074] Specifically, a communication control frame is sent to the backplane logic device through the first communication link.

[0075] S202: The controller unit sends lighting information to the backplane logic device.

[0076] S203: The backplane logic device parses the communication control frame to obtain a first lighting signal, parses the lighting information to obtain a control right identifier and a second lighting signal, and sends the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal to the hard disk status light according to the control right identifier.

[0077] Specifically, on the basis of Figure 1 the backplane logic device performs a first parsing on the communication control frame to obtain a first lighting signal, performs a second parsing on the lighting information to obtain a control right identifier and a second lighting signal, and makes a judgment and processing according to the control right identifier to send the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal to the hard disk status light.

[0078] In this embodiment, the first lighting signal is the vpp_loc / err signal; the control right identifier is bmc_control; the second lighting signal is the bmc_loc / err signal.

[0079] Specifically, the specific process of "the backplane logic device parses the communication control frame to obtain a first lighting signal" in step S203 includes:

[0080] S2031: Parse the communication control frame sent by the transmission unit to obtain the topology information of the hardware device unit.

[0081] S2032: Judge the topology type of the upstream hardware device unit according to the topology information.

[0082] Specifically, step S2032 specifically includes:

[0083] S20321: Parse the topology information through a preset state machine to obtain topology type information.

[0084] In this embodiment, the preset state machine can be an FSM, where the FSM is a mathematical model used to describe the behavior of a system or an object. It is usually used to describe the different states that an object experiences during its life cycle, as well as the transitions between these states.

[0085] S20322: Judge the topology type of the upstream hardware device unit according to the topology type information.

[0086] S2033: Extract the first lighting signal of the corresponding hardware device from the communication control frame according to the topology type.

[0087] Specifically, the specific process of "the backplane logic device sends the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal to the hard disk status light according to the control right identifier" in step S203 includes:

[0088] S2034: Determine whether the control right flag is a high level or a low level.

[0089] S2035: If it is determined that the control right indicator is at a low level, a first lighting signal is sent to the hard disk status indicator.

[0090] S2036: If it is determined that the control right indicator is at a high level, a second lighting signal is sent to the hard disk status light.

[0091] In addition, after parsing the lighting information to obtain the control authority identifier and the second lighting signal, it also includes: verifying the control authority identifier and the second lighting signal to obtain a verification result; if the verification result is that the verification passes, the control authority identifier and the second lighting signal are updated to the register.

[0092] S204: The hard disk status light is turned on according to the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal.

[0093] In summary, the lighting control method provided in the present embodiment obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit through the transmission unit, encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device; the controller unit sends the lighting information to the backplane logic device; the backplane logic device parses the communication control frame to obtain a first lighting signal, and parses the lighting information to obtain a control right identifier and a second lighting signal, and sends the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal to the hard disk status light according to the control right identifier; the hard disk status light is turned on according to the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal. The method of obtaining the status information of the hardware device unit through the transmission unit replaces the method of manually burning and configuring the corresponding user flash memory, so that the backplane logic device can obtain the corresponding lighting signal according to the status information, thereby reducing the complexity of the lighting control and improving the efficiency of the lighting control.

[0094] Figure 3 Schematic diagram of the lighting control method provided in the embodiment of the present application Figure 2 In the embodiment of the present application, Figure 2 Based on the embodiment provided, the specific implementation method of the initialization process of the hardware device unit in step S201 is described in detail. Figure 3 As shown, the method includes:

[0095] S301: The backplane logic device obtains a hard disk presence signal of a hard disk device through a hard disk slot, encapsulates the hard disk presence signal into a communication receiving frame, and sends the communication receiving frame to a transmission unit.

[0096] In this embodiment, the communication reception frame at least includes a second address field and a synchronization frame header; correspondingly, the specific process of "the backplane logic device obtains the hard disk presence signal of the hard disk device through the hard disk slot" in step S301 includes:

[0097] S3011: Send the second address field to the transmission unit to establish a second communication link with the transmission unit.

[0098] S3012: After establishing the second communication link, complete frame synchronization through the synchronization frame header.

[0099] S3013: After completing frame synchronization, obtain the hard disk presence signal through the hard disk slot.

[0100] Specifically, after completing frame synchronization, obtain the hard disk presence signal by declaring the data length and the hard disk slot.

[0101] Correspondingly, in step S301, "the backplane logic device sends the communication reception frame to the transmission unit" is specifically: sending the communication reception frame to the transmission unit through the second communication link.

[0102] In addition, after "encapsulating the hard disk presence signal into the communication reception frame" in step S301, it further includes: the backplane logic device encapsulates the final additional check value into the communication reception frame to verify the integrity of the communication reception frame.

[0103] In this embodiment, the complete communication reception frame includes: second address field - Address, synchronization frame header - SyncHead, declared data length - Length, hard disk presence signal - VPP_PRSNT, and final additional check value - Checksum.

[0104] Among them, the declared data length is 1 byte, the final additional check value is 1 byte, and the hard disk presence signal is N bytes, where N represents the number of hard disks. Exemplarily, N is 8.

[0105] In addition, the detailed description of each piece of information in the complete communication control frame is shown in Table 2.

[0106] Table 2 Description of the complete communication reception frame

[0107]

[0108] S302: The transmission unit parses the communication reception frame to obtain the hard disk presence signal, determines the corresponding hard disk presence status according to the hard disk presence signal, and maps the hard disk presence status to the hardware device unit to complete the initialization of the hardware device unit.

[0109] In summary, for the lighting control method provided in this embodiment, through the backplane logic device, the hard disk presence signal of the hard disk device is obtained through the hard disk slot, the hard disk presence signal is encapsulated into a communication reception frame, and the communication reception frame is sent to the transmission unit; the transmission unit parses the communication reception frame to obtain the hard disk presence signal, determines the corresponding hard disk presence status according to the hard disk presence signal, and maps the hard disk presence status to the hardware device unit to complete the initialization of the hardware device unit. By initializing the hardware device unit, a foundation is laid for subsequent lighting control.

[0110] It should be noted that the communication control frame and the communication reception frame are collectively referred to as the communication frame. The communication frame includes two signal lines, the data line (SDA) and the clock line (SCL). The core timing definitions are as follows: During the period when the clock line remains high, the data line changing from high level to low level represents the start signal, and changing from low level to high level represents the stop signal; data transmission is in bytes and adopts the most significant bit (MSB) first transmission mechanism. One bit of acknowledgment signal follows each byte - during the high level period of the 9th clock cycle, the data line being low represents acknowledgment (ACK), and high level represents non-acknowledgment (NACK). The I2C protocol format includes two basic communication methods, the write mode and the read mode.

[0111] Among them, the communication control frame corresponds to the write mode. In the write mode, the host sends a 7-bit slave address (the least significant bit LSB = 0 indicates a write operation). After the slave returns an ACK acknowledgment in the 9th clock cycle, the host sends data byte by byte, and each byte requires an ACK confirmation from the slave.

[0112] Among them, the communication reception frame corresponds to the read mode. In the read mode, the host sends the slave address (LSB = 1). After the slave ACKs, it starts to send data. After the host receives each byte, it maintains the transmission by sending ACK or terminates the communication by sending NACK. And the schematic diagrams of the above I2C protocol format, I2C write mode, and I2C read mode can be seen in Figure 4 the I2C protocol schematic diagram shown.

[0113] Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the method according to the above embodiments can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform. Of course, it can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation method.

[0114] The above has introduced in detail a lighting control system and a lighting control method provided by the present application. Specific examples are used in this article to elaborate on the principle and implementation manner of the present application. The description of the above embodiments is only used to help understand the method and its core idea of the present application. It should be noted that for those of ordinary skill in the art in this technical field, without departing from the principle of the present application, several improvements and modifications can still be made to the present application, and these improvements and modifications also fall within the protection scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims

1. A lighting control system, characterized in that: include: A transmission unit (101), a hardware device unit (102), a backplane logic device (103), a controller unit (104) and a hard disk status light (105); The transmission unit (101) is respectively connected to the hardware device unit (102) and the backplane logic device (103); the hardware device unit (102) is connected to the backplane logic device (103); the controller unit (104) is connected to the backplane logic device (103); the backplane logic device (103) is connected to the hard disk status light (105); The transmission unit (101) obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit (102), encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device (103).

2. The lighting control system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The transmission unit (101) comprises: a transmission system (1011) and a management bus (1012); The transmission system (1011) is respectively connected to the hardware device unit (102) and the management bus (1012); the management bus (1012) is respectively connected to the hardware device unit (102) and the backplane logic device (103); The transmission system (1011) obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit (102), encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the management bus (1012).

3. The lighting control system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The hardware device unit (102) comprises: a central processing unit (1021), an expansion card (1022) and a three-mode card (1023); The central processor (1021) is communicatively connected to the transmission unit (101); The expansion card (1022) is communicatively connected to the transmission unit (101); The three-mode card (1023) is communicatively connected to the transmission unit (101).

4. The lighting control system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The controller unit (104) comprises: a controller (1041) and a serial bus (1042); Wherein, the controller (1041) is communicatively connected with the serial bus (1042); The serial bus (1042) is communicatively connected to the backplane logic device (103).

5. The lighting control system according to claim 1, characterized in that: Also includes: Hard disk slot (106); Wherein, the backplane logic device (103) is communicatively connected with the hard disk slot (106); The hard disk slot (106) is communicatively connected to the hardware device unit (102).

6. The lighting control system according to claim 5, characterized in that: The backplane logic device (103) at least comprises: a preset protocol interface (1031); Wherein, the preset protocol interface (1031) is communicatively connected with the hard disk slot (106).

7. A lighting control method, characterized in that: A lighting control system as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, comprising: The transmission unit obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit, encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device; The controller unit sends the lighting information to the backplane logic device; The backplane logic device parses the communication control frame to obtain a first lighting signal, and parses the lighting information to obtain a control right identifier and a second lighting signal, and sends the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal to the hard disk status light according to the control right identifier; The hard disk status light is turned on according to the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal.

8. The lighting control method according to claim 7, characterized in that: The backplane logic device parses the communication control frame to obtain a first lighting signal, including: Parsing the communication control frame sent by the transmission unit to obtain topology information of the hardware device unit; Determine the topology type of the upstream hardware device unit according to the topology information; A first lighting signal of a corresponding hardware device is extracted from the communication control frame according to the topology type.

9. The lighting control method according to claim 8, characterized in that: The determining the topology type of the upstream hardware device unit according to the topology information includes: The topology information is parsed by a preset state machine to obtain topology type information; The topology type of the upstream hardware device unit is determined according to the topology type information.

10. The lighting control method according to claim 7, characterized in that: The backplane logic device sends the first lighting signal or the second lighting signal to the hard disk status light according to the control right identifier, including: Determining whether the control right flag is a high level or a low level; If it is determined that the control right indicator is at a low level, the first lighting signal is sent to the hard disk status indicator; If it is determined that the control right flag is at a high level, the second lighting signal is sent to the hard disk status light.

11. The lighting control method according to claim 7, characterized in that: The transmission unit comprises: a transmission system and a management bus; Accordingly, the transmission unit obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit, encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device, including: The transmission system obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit, encapsulates the status information into a communication control frame, and sends the communication control frame to a management bus; The management bus sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device.

12. The lighting control method according to claim 11, characterized in that: The communication control frame at least includes a first address field and a synchronization frame header; Accordingly, the transmission system obtains the status information of the initialized hardware device unit, including: Sending a first address field to the backplane logic device to establish a first communication link with the backplane logic device; After establishing the first communication link, completing frame synchronization through the synchronization frame header; After completing frame synchronization, obtaining status information of the initialized hardware device unit; Accordingly, the management bus sends the communication control frame to the backplane logic device, including: The communication control frame is sent to a backplane logic device via the first communication link.

13. The lighting control method according to claim 7, characterized in that: The lighting control system further comprises: a hard disk slot; Accordingly, the initialization process of the hardware device unit includes: The backplane logic device obtains a hard disk presence signal of the hard disk device through the hard disk slot, encapsulates the hard disk presence signal into a communication reception frame, and sends the communication reception frame to the transmission unit; The transmission unit parses the communication reception frame to obtain a hard disk presence signal, determines the corresponding hard disk presence status according to the hard disk presence signal, and maps the hard disk presence status to the hardware device unit to complete the initialization of the hardware device unit.

14. The lighting control method according to claim 13, characterized in that: The communication receiving frame at least includes a second address field and a synchronization frame header; Correspondingly, the backplane logic device obtains the hard disk presence signal of the hard disk device through the hard disk slot, including: sending a second address field to the transmission unit to establish a second communication link with the transmission unit; After establishing the second communication link, completing frame synchronization through the synchronization frame header; After completing frame synchronization, obtain the hard disk presence signal through the hard disk slot; Accordingly, the backplane logic device sends the communication reception frame to the transmission unit, including: The communication reception frame is sent to the transmission unit through the second communication link.

15. The lighting control method according to claim 13, characterized in that: After encapsulating the hard disk presence signal into a communication receiving frame, the method further includes: The backplane logic device finally adds the check value to encapsulate the communication receiving frame to check the integrity of the communication receiving frame.

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