Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low power bidirectional bus
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Application No.: US15898839Application Date: 2018-02-19
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Publication No.: US10218535B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Willem Zwart , John Bruce Bowlerwell , Michael Page , Alastair Boomer
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Jackson Walker L.L.P.
- Priority: GB1508002.1 20150511
- Main IPC: H04L5/14
- IPC: H04L5/14 ; H04L12/40 ; G06F13/42 ; G06F13/40

Abstract:
A method of sending information between first and second modules connected by a signal bus comprises generating a clock signal in the first module, and imposing the clock signal on a first line of the bus. A first pattern of bit values is transmitted from the second module to the first module on a second line of the bus, during first half-periods of each period of said clock signal. A second pattern of bit values is transmitted from the first module to the second module on the second line of the bus, during second half-periods of each period of said clock signal, wherein the second half-periods of each period of said clock signal are different from the first half-periods of each period of said clock signal. Information can then be transmitted from the first module to the second module by altering the second pattern of bit values; and information can be transmitted from the second module to the first module by altering the first pattern of bit values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180176034A1 LOW POWER BIDIRECTIONAL BUS Public/Granted day:2018-06-21
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