Adaptive communication interface
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey D. Hoffman, Allan R. Bjerke
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention include a communication interface and protocol for allowing communication between devices, circuits, integrated circuits and similar electronic components having different communication capacities or clock domains. The interface supports communication between any components having any difference in capacity and over any distance. The interface utilizes request and acknowledge phases and signals and an initiator-target relationship between components that allow each side to throttle the communication rate to an accepted level for each component or achieve a desired bit error rate.
Claims1
A system, comprising:
- an initiator device to generate a request signal to initiate a transfer of data;
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- a target device to couple to the initiator device and to generate an acknowledgement signal to throttle a communication rate of the data, the throttling of the communication rate includes the initiator device to initiate a read or write in response to a first delayed version of the acknowledgment signal received from the target device and to end the read or the write in response to a second delayed version of the acknowledgement signal.
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