Selectively-switchable bus connecting device for chip device
AssigneeRDC Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
InventorsChang-Cheng Yap, Chih-Fu Tsai, Chien-Min Hsieh
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Abstract
A selectively-switchable bus connecting device is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a chip device for connecting the multiple signal lines of the chip device's internal bus in a user-specified mapping manner to the multiple signal lines of a socket on an external circuit board. This feature allows chip devices of the same type to be usable for mounting on different types of circuit boards having different socket signal line arrangements, with the benefits of flexible arrangements and cost-effective design and manufacture of circuit boards with chip devices.
Claims8
A selectively-switchable bus connecting device for use with a chip device having a set of bus signal lines for the purpose of connecting the bus signal lines of the chip device in a user-specified mapping manner to a corresponding set of variously-arranged bus signal lines of an external circuit board socket;
- the selectively-switchable bus connecting device comprising:
- a parameter setting module, which is used to specify a set of switching control parameters based on a user-specified mapping manner for the connections of the bus signal lines of the chip device to the bus signal lines of the external circuit board socket;
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- a switching module, which is capable of being controlled by the switching control parameters specified by the parameter setting module to switch the connections of the bus signal lines of the chip device to the bus signal lines of the external circuit board socket in a user-specified mapping manner.
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