Leader chip and follower chips

One chip for the whole base does not fit into 128 lines. So you split up: each area gets its own chip, the follower chip. A leader chip decides what the base should be doing right now and tells everybody.

Distributing tasks#

A follower chip does exactly one thing well – heating in the living module, pumps in water treatment. It does not need to know why power is being saved. It only needs to know that it is. The leader makes the decision once instead of every follower working it out itself.

Sending commands#

The simplest mailbox of a follower chip is its own housing: the leader writes into its Setting, the follower reads it with l cmd db Setting. If all followers have the same name, a single sbn reaches all of them:

sbn HOUSING HASH("Folger") Setting mode     # to all followers

The leader itself is not affected, as long as its housing has a different name.

Collecting results#

For the way back each follower gets its own logic memory that only it writes into – “Ergebnis1”, “Ergebnis2”. The leader reads them all and works with them:

lbn r1v MEMORY HASH("Ergebnis1") Setting Average
lbn r2v MEMORY HASH("Ergebnis2") Setting Average
add total r1v r2v

That way it can react to the overall picture: if the followers together need more than 3000 W, it switches them all to saving mode – something no single follower sees.