US 11,086,803 B2 · Dynamically configuring transmission lines of a bus

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for dynamically configuring transmission lines of a bus between two electronic devices (e.g., a controller and memory device) are described. A first device may determine a quantity of bits (e.g., data bits, control bits) to be communicated with a second device over a data bus. The first device may partition the data bus into a first set of transmission lines (e.g., based on the quantity of data bits) and a second set of transmission lines (e.g., based on the quantity of control bits). The first device may communicate the quantity of data bits over the first set of transmission lines and communicate the quantity of control bits over the second set of transmission lines. In some cases, the first device may repartition the data bus based on different quantities of data bits and control bits to be communicated with the second device at a different time.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

determining, by a host device, a quantity of data bits and a quantity of control bits associated with a memory device, the host device and the memory device coupled with a data bus comprising transmission lines;
selecting, from the data bus, a first set of the transmission lines based at least in part on the quantity of data bits and a second set of the transmission lines based at least in part on the quantity of control bits;
transferring, over the first set of the transmission lines, the quantity of data bits to the memory device;
and
transferring, over the second set of the transmission lines, the quantity of control bits between the host device and the memory device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Dynamically configuring transmission lines of a bus

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Abstract

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