Alcatel Radiotelephone

Alcatel N.v.

Alain Chateau

Emmanuel Rousseau

Xavier Sarremejean

Jean-Pierre Guerlin

Pascal Bourrier

Marc De Savigny

A method and apparatus for conserving energy in a system including first and second devices interconnected by a data communication link via respective first and second interfaces in the first and second devices by sending a message over the link to put the interface in one device on standby. This message is sent by the interface in the other device. The first or second interface is reactivated by the other interface by electrical means via a physical medium of the link.

Method and an apparatus for placing devices on standby in a system

A processor data memory address generator is adapted to receive a control word from a program controller receiving instructions from a program memory addressed by an instruction counter and producing a program signal addressed to an arithmetic and logic unit. The instruction counter is incremented by a clock signal and reset by the program controller. The control word comprises location information and selection information and the address generator is adapted to produce a data address having a first part comprising bits of said location information and a second part formed by a selected set of bits of the address of the current instruction identified by said selection information.

Processor data memory address generator

A data transfer interface module comprises a storage zone constituted by a plurality of locations referenced by addresses provided by an address generator and serving to acquire a set of data items constituting a block of a size that may be variable, which data items are stored successively in the plurality locations; a control signal COM via control circuit and an acquisition and recording circuit to enable address generation and also loading in the storage zone, the same control circuit in association with a read and transmission circuit then enabling the data to be transmitted, with the data items being extracted one by one from the locations, such that the first item to be transmitted is the last item to have been recorded; and a monitor circuit controlled by the address generator and serving to verify that the number Do of data items transmitted is equal to the number Di of data items acquired and to provide a status word ST which can be read to provide information about proper transmission.

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Herblay, France

Alain Chateau