permits it to obtain the raw signals from sensors 115 that are indicative of the respective wheel angle measurements during each cycle the raw angle signals from sensors 115 are each stored in a memory associated with microcontroller 114 such as a dual port ram not shown up to this point the operation of board 110 in this embodiment is similar to that described in u s pat no 5 734 569 however sensor interface board 110 also contains its own usb controller 112 operably coupled to the microcontroller 114 by interface logic including dual port ram not shown usb controller 112 is available from cypress semiconductor corporation san jose calif as part number cy7c65113 usb controller 112 permits board 110 to constitute a usb u201c device u201d as understood in the usb specification pages 34 37 usb controller 112 is configured to communicate with microcontroller 114 in board 110 to retrieve the raw angle signals for further transmittal as described below referring again to fig5 link 105 is shown between board 110 and general purpose computer 100 link 105 is representative in this embodiment of a high speed multipoint data link preferably selected from the list comprising ethernet can firewire access bus token ring arcnet local talk fddi atm and cddi and most preferably comprising usb this high speed multi port serial link replaces and improves the function of the interface board 39 s dual port ram as connected to the general purpose computer 39 s parallel synchronous data paths as disclosed in u s pat no 5 734 569 the usb protocol is governed by general purpose computer 100 which is assumed to be equipped with usb capability either within.