Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Marvell International Technology Ltd

Frederick Walter Pew

Randall Don Briggs

Mark David Montierth

David Luke

Kris Provencio

In accordance with the invention, it has been determined that the bandwidth, guaranteed periodic delivery and error correction characteristics of a USB High-Speed Interrupt OUT pipe of the USB 2.0 standard enable the Interrupt OUT pipe to be used to transfer print data from the host computer to the printer. By using the Interrupt OUT pipe for this purpose, it is no longer necessary to store an entire rasterized page in the formatter memory of the printer before commencing printing of the page. Consequently, the size of the formatter memory device can be relatively small compared to the size of the formatter memory device that is currently used to store an entire rasterized page. Alternatively, the same size memory device as that currently used to store an entire rasterized page may be used to enable higher resolution pages to be printed.

Printing system and method that uses a universal serial bus (USB) high-speed interrupt out pipe to transfer print data from the host computer to the printer

Embodiments of the invention prevent data from being mishandled at a connected device using a system that verifies that data received after receiving a setup command portion of a control transaction is received without errors and/or without receiving a second setup command used to cancel the first. In some embodiments, a control transaction is processed by receiving a setup token and setup data, setting a predetermined memory location to write the setup data, and then preventing the setup data read from the memory from being acted on until the device verifies that no superceding commands have been received by the device.

Control transaction handling in a device controller

Hardware Description Language (HDL) code is created for an interface controller so that logic requiring device-specific configuration refers to a parameter file. This set of parameters lets components in a bridge circuit provide support for the same configuration. In another aspect of the invention, a control circuit identifies isochronous endpoints and non-isochronous endpoints. A buffer is configured into a first FIFO mode for isochronous endpoints and configured into a second FIFO mode for non-isochronous endpoints.

Method and apparatus for configuring an interface controller wherein ping pong FIFO segments stores isochronous data and a single circular FIFO stores non-isochronous data

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Meridian, ID, United States of America

Frederick Walter Pew