MONITOR SYSTEM HAVING LIST OF ITEMS WITH FIXED TIME SLICES FOR TRANSMITTING TIMING SIGNALS AT THE END OF A COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MASTER PROCESSOR AND SLAVE PROCESSORS

A system for measuring a plurality of parameters comprises a master processor and a multiplicity of slave processors. The master processor operates in time slices of 2 ms. Communication with the slave processors is performed in fixed format. The master processor manages the communications in certain time slices according to a matrix wherein each item or column represents a certain time slice. The items or columns in this matrix are organized such that the communications with those slave processors preceding the communication with a specific slave processor are the same as in all other items or columns containing a communication with said specific slave processor. In particular, the slave processors requiring short-intervallic timing signals are entered on top of the items or columns, whereas slave processors with longer-intervallic timing signals are entered below these. This system and the method of communication are particularly useful in a configurable medical monitoring system.