Abstract:
A common communication controller (17) is linked to a plurality of peripheral devices (28) by a network interface bus (26). Packets containing information is communicated between the controller and the peripherals over the bus which consists of a parallel packet bus and a plurality of control lines utilized to implement a communication protocol which increases the efficiencies of packet communications by the utilization of additional direct command lines between the communications controller (17) and peripherals (28).
Abstract:
A common communication controller (17) is linked to a plurality of peripheral devices (28) by a network interface bus (26). Packets containing information is communicated between the controller and the peripherals over the bus which consists of a parallel packet bus and a plurality of control lines utilized to implement a communication protocol which increases the efficiencies of packet communications by the utilization of additional direct command lines between the communications controller (17) and peripherals (28).