International Business Machines Corporation

David Eduardo Vieira

Mark Elliot Andresen

James Joseph Parsonese

Andrew Boyce McNeill, Jr

Wilson Velez

Robert J Christopher

Timothy Vincent Lee

Menlo Wuu

Richard Christopher Fore

William Roff Thomas

A bi-directional voltage translator is disclosed. The bi-directional voltage translator includes a step-up voltage translator for converting signals of a first voltage level to signals of a second voltage level, and a step-down voltage translator for converting signals of the second voltage level to signals of the first voltage level. The step-up voltage translator includes a first source sense circuit, a first block feedback circuit and a first output driver circuit. The step-down voltage translator includes a second source sense circuit, a second block feedback circuit and a second output driver circuit.

Bi-directional voltage translator

The peripheral bus connector for improved aggregation of resources of a device on the peripheral bus includes a plurality of aggregation pins, in addition to the pins according to the peripheral bus standard. Signals from a controller on an extended peripheral bus adapter sends and receives signals in addition to standard signals of the peripheral bus through the aggregation pins. The aggregated device is hidden from third parties, and its existence is known only to the controller on the extended peripheral bus adapter. In this manner, resources are aggregated across a peripheral bus without needing the addition of another controller and without the need to redefine standard peripheral bus signals. In addition, standard peripheral bus adapters may still be used in the connector if resource aggregation is not desired.

Connector that enables aggregation of independent system resources across PCI/PCI-X bus and interlocked method for aggregating independent system resources across PCI/PCI-X bus

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David Eduardo Vieira