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US 8,265,558 B2Granted
Intra-device RF bus and control thereof
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorAhmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
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Abstract
A device includes a first integrated circuit, a second integrated circuit and an RF bus controller. Each of the first and second ICs includes a radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver. The RF bus controller is coupled to control intra-device RF communications between the RF bus transceivers of the first and second ICs.
Claims20
A device comprises:
- an RF memory bus for wireless communication between:
- a processing core having a processing core radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver;
- a memory system having a memory system RF bus transceiver;
- and
- a peripheral interface module that includes a peripheral radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver for wireless communication with a plurality of peripheral circuits that interface with an RF input/output bus.
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A device comprises:
- an RF memory bus for wireless communication between:
- a processing core having a processing core radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver
- a memory system having a memory system RF bus transceiver;
- and
- a peripheral interface module that includes a peripheral radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver for wireless communication with a plurality of peripheral circuits that interface with an RF input/output bus, the RF input/output bus supporting at least one of:
- RF peripheral data communications, RF peripheral instruction communications, and RF peripheral control signal communications;
- wherein the RF memory bus supports at least one of:
- RF memory data communications, RF memory instruction communications, and RF memory control signal communications;
- and
- wherein the plurality of peripheral circuits comprises at least two of:
- a hard disk drive;
- a compact disk (CD) drive;
- a digital video disk (DVD) drive;
- a video card;
- an audio card;
- a wireline network card;
- and
- a wireless network card.
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A device comprises:
- an RF memory bus for wireless communication between:
- a processing core having a processing core radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver
- a memory system having a memory system RF bus transceiver;
- and
- a peripheral interface module that includes a peripheral radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver for wireless communication with a plurality of peripheral circuits that interface with an RF input/output bus, the RF input/output bus supporting at least one of:
- RF peripheral data communications, RF peripheral instruction communications, and RF peripheral control signal communications;
- and
- an RF bus controller coupled to control access to the RF memory bus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.