Industrial Technology Research Institute

Yeu-Horng Shiau

Chih-Wei Hsu

Chung-Ping Chung

Yuan-Heng Sun

Tsung-Hsi Weng

Wei-Hau Chiao

A cascade-able serial bus device for coupling between a host device and another serial bus device is disclosed. The host device includes a serial bus interface. The serial bus device includes a first connection interface, a second connection interface and a bypassing module. The first connection interface is coupled to the serial bus interface of the host device. The second connection interface is coupled to the second serial bus device. The bypassing module is coupled to a chip select (CS) signal line of the serial bus interface and the second connection interface for selectively bypassing or non-bypassing the CS signal to the second serial bus device.

Cascade-able serial bus device with clock and management and cascade methods using the same

A method and an apparatus for bus encoding and a method and an apparatus for bus decoding are provided. The methods and apparatuses for bus encoding/decoding use a discontinuous pattern table (DPT) to store discontinuous pattern pairs. The tables are kept synchronous in both transmitter and receiver ends. After transmitting the first data in a discontinuous pattern pair, the second data may be transmitted by merely informing the receiver end through a control line instead of transmitting the second data by the bus.

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