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6959351 Handling of a multi-access instruction in a data processing apparatus  
The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method for handling a multi-access instruction of the type which specifies that an access request of a first type and an access...
6952618 Input/output control systems and methods having a plurality of master and slave controllers  
Apparatus and methods for controlling a system that operates responsive to a plurality of input control signals are disclosed. During operation the system generates a plurality of output...
6952747 Method of delaying bus request signals to arbitrate for bus use and system therefor  
In plural master apparatus connected to a bus, a master apparatus issues, to an arbiter, a request signal requesting the use of the bus after a lapse of a predetermined interval when the use of the...
6948018 Method and system for exchanging data  
A method and a system exchange data between a program-controlled device, in particular a microcontroller, and a logic circuit. A control signal is transmitted from the program-controlled device to...
6944697 Serial device daisy chaining method and apparatus  
A method includes the step of serially clocking a mask value through a plurality of subscriber line interface circuits (SLICs) until each SLIC stores a corresponding portion of the mask value, and...
6944695 Method and apparatus for connecting devices to a bus  
A two-wire serial (TWS) bus allows bus mastering by any device on the bus utilizing pull-ups. The bus is actively driven low, but typically pulled high by pull-up resistors for each device on the...
6938113 Apparatus for flushing slave transactions from resetting masters of a data bus  
When a master device resets, flush commands are issued to a flush master register in the slave devices. A comparator compares the identification of the master device associated with the flush...
6934786 Server chassis hardware master system and method  
A system and method for selecting a hardware master from a plurality of computing devices and controlling the communication of a master control signal(s) to one or more of the plurality of...
6931470 Dual access serial peripheral interface  
A dual access peripheral interface uses a shared data bus ( 16 ) for communication with dual master units ( 30,32 ) coupled to a common peripheral device ( 34 ). Each master control unit provides a...
6928505 USB device controller  
A device controller for connecting a function engine that supports an application to a packet-switched serial bus to which a host device is connected. The interface device includes a serial...
6922790 Three wire communication protocol  
Disclosed is a serial communications protocol for connecting a master and a plurality of slaves using three communication lines. The protocol establishes a method for communication between the...
6912606 Generic serial bus architecture  
A serial bus is provided that supports multiple data transmission protocols. The serial bus allows a bus master to communicate with a variety of semiconductor devices that support a variety of...
6912609 Four-phase handshake arbitration  
A four-phase arbitration system employs a master and a slave arbiter. The master arbiter operates to provide ownership of a bus to a first device if a second device, coupled to the slave arbiter is...
6912016 Audiovisual system formed by various appliances of which certain appliances are formed by various functionality modules  
Various appliances linked up by a bus that can transmit video data form the system, and functionality modules themselves connected to the bus form certain appliances. A command enables to select...
6910086 Controller device, communication system and controlling method for transmitting reserve commands from a controller to target devices  
Disclosed herein are a controller device, a communication system and a controlling method for transmitting commands for designating two modes used in a setup comprising a controller device and a...
6909307 Bidirectional bus driver and bidirectional bus circuit  
A bidirectional bus driver includes a first buffer which supplies the data signal to the second bus when the first control signal is enabled; a second buffer which supplies the data signal to the...
6910087 Dynamic command buffer for a slave device on a data bus  
A slave device includes a command FIFO that stores commands for a device controller on a first-in, first-out basis to execute a read or write transaction. Commands are received from the data bus by...
6907331 Vehicle control system and apparatus therefor  
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for a vehicle control system comprising electronic modules used for the automatic control of vehicle operation. The method for automatic...
6907492 Interface circuit which meets universal serial bus standard and performs host and device functions  
When a device such as a printer is connected to a connector 49 via a USB cable using an electronic device 40 as a host, a selecting circuit 43 b is switched to a host function circuit 43 a ...
6907488 Serial data transmission via a bus system  
The present invention relates to a passive component for a bus system, such as, for example, a field bus system, having a bus interface for connection to a bus, a serial interface for serially...
6895458 Opcode to turn around a bi-directional bus  
A system for managing the control of a bi-directional data bus between a master unit and a slave unit. The master couples to the slave through a request opcode bus, a reply opcode bus and the data...
6889310 Multithreaded data/context flow processing architecture  
Multithreaded data- and context-flow processing is achieved by flowing data and context (thread) identification tokens through specialized cores (functional blocks, intellectual property). Each...
6886064 Computer system serialization control method involving unlocking global lock of one partition, after completion of machine check analysis regardless of state of other partition locks  
In a computer system having a logical-partitioned server, each partition of the server is provided with its own separate lock and access corridor, in addition to a global lock. When the locking of...
6883051 Efficient bus utilization in a multiprocessor system by dynamically mapping memory addresses  
In one embodiment of the present invention, a slave interface circuit includes a slave access circuit and a slave bus decoder. The slave access circuit provides access to the one of P slave devices...
6880036 Apparatus for receiving audiovisual programs  
The present invention relates to an apparatus for receiving audio-visual programs comprising a circuit for communication with means of connection to a bi-directional communication network, wherein...
6874052 Expansion bridge apparatus and method for an I2C bus  
The present invention is an I 2 C (inter-IC control) bridge device which implements a communication protocol layered on top of a standard I 2 C protocol. The layered protocol used by the bridge...
6874044 Flash drive/reader with serial-port controller and flash-memory controller mastering a second RAM-buffer bus parallel to a CPU bus  
A flash-drive or flash-card reader connects to a personal computer (PC) through a serial link such as a Universal-Serial-Bus (USB), IEEE 1394, SATA, or IDE. A local CPU acts as the bus master of a...
6871250 Data bus, particularly in motor vehicles  
The invention relates to a data bus comprising slave nodes executing functions based on addressed command telegrams of an electronic main control unit which is also connected to said data bus. The...
6868459 Methods and structure for transfer of burst transactions having unspecified length  
Methods and associated structure for providing a substitute, predetermined, fixed length when transferring burst transactions from one device to another through a bridge device where the burst...
6862266 Loop test apparatus of packet routing bus in communication system and loop test method  
A loop test apparatus of a packet routing bus in a communication system and a loop test method thereof capable of testing entire functions of the packet routing bus of a full-duplex transmission...
6859668 Structured system for monitoring and controlling the engineering equipment of an installation  
The present inventions pertains to the field of automatic control systems based on computer technology, and essentially relates to a structured system for monitoring and controlling the engineering...
6857029 Scalable on-chip bus performance monitoring synchronization mechanism and method of use  
A bus performance monitoring mechanism for systems on a chip (SOC) is disclosed. The system comprises a muxing logic adapted to be coupled to a plurality of master devices, a plurality of slave...
6856420 System and method for transferring data within a printer  
A printer is described. The printer includes a CPU, a DMA controller and an internal memory. The CPU and the DMA controller are each connected to a first memory bus. The internal memory is...
6857035 Methods and apparatus for bus mastering and arbitration  
Methods and apparatus are provided for providing a first master component with access to a first slave component while a second master component is accessing a second slave component in a system....
6854030 Integrated circuit device having a capacitive coupling element  
An integrated circuit memory device that include an input receiver, an output driver, and a capacitive coupling element. The capacitive coupling element includes a first capacitor electrode and a...
6851004 Adaptive retry mechanism  
An adaptive retry mechanism may record latencies of recent transactions (e.g. the first data transfer latency), and may select a retry latency from two or more retry latencies. The retry latency...
6850998 Disk array system and a method for controlling the disk array system  
In a disk array system of the present invention, each host or disk interface unit is connected to each shared memory unit through a switch unit. The switch unit includes the number of packet...
6851056 Control function employing a requesting master id and a data address to qualify data access within an integrated system  
An access control function for an integrated system is provided which determines data access based on the master id of a requesting master within the system and the address of the data. The access...
6842808 Data exchange between users connected by a bus system and having separate time bases  
A method and device for the exchange of data in messages between at least two users which are connected by a bus system and have separate time bases, the messages containing the data being...
6842669 Component interface module  
A component interface module (CIM) arbitrates through priority logic component command signals from redundant systems and integrates the selected priority command signal with component feedback...
6842806 Method and apparatus for interconnecting wired-AND buses  
One or more bus bridges are used to partition a large I 2 C bus into smaller bus segments. By programming address bitmaps that are internal to each bridge, the various bus segments can be made to...
6834318 Bidirectional bus repeater for communications on a chip  
A bidirectional bus repeater is disclosed that connects individual segments of a bidirectional bus. The exemplary bidirectional bus repeater consists of a direction control block and a buffer...
6826632 System for identifying the interconnection of peripheral devices  
A system and method for identifying the interconnection of peripheral devices in an information handling system and generating a model of the interconnection of the devices is disclosed. The system...
6823411 N-way psuedo cross-bar having an arbitration feature using discrete processor local busses  
A bus architecture is provided to facilitate communication between independent bus masters and independent bus slaves by having two or more bus arbiters in a system-on-chip (SOC) system. Each bus...
6820150 Method and apparatus for providing quality-of-service delivery facilities over a bus  
The invention provides quality-of-service (QoS) delivery services over a computer bus having isochronous data transfer capabilities. A transmitting node on the bus transmits a message to an...
6816931 Upstream peripheral device serving as a USB host  
A scanner, which can be a USB host, includes a hub, a scanner component, a virtual printer component and an internal host. The hub is connected to a computer host and the scanner. The scanner...
6816925 Combination personal data assistant and personal computing device with master slave input output  
In order to provide continuous communication ability in a computer architecture that integrates a computer (PC) architecture system and a personal digital assistant (PDA) architecture system, a...
6812852 System and method for selecting a subset of autonomous and independent slave entities  
A master entity is capable of broadcasting commands to a plurality of three-state-selection machine slaves. Transitions from one state to another are effected on instruction from commands in a...
6813527 High integrity control system architecture using digital computing platforms with rapid recovery  
A control system architecture suitably includes sufficient computation redundancy and control command management to isolate and recover a faulted processor and/or to recover all processing units in...
6813664 System transmitting data in equidistance cycles using successive synchronization signals for detecting and signaling access violations  
A user terminal ( 1 ) having a communications processor ( 10 ) that carries out a cyclic data transmission. During a cyclic part (ZYK,x) of a cycle (Z,x) in which user data are transmitted, a DP...