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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Cristian Pavao Moreira, Frouzins, FR;
Birama Goumballa, Larra, FR;
Jean-Stephane Vigier, Mondonville, FR;
Matthis Bouchayer, Toulouse, FR;
NXP USA, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A communication unit () is described that includes a plurality of cascaded devices that comprise at least one master device and at least one slave device configured in a master-slave arrangement and configured to process at least one of: transmit signals, and receive signals. The at least one of at least one master device and at least one slave device comprises a demodulator circuit () configured to: receive a modulated embedded master-slave clock signal () that comprises a system clock signal () with an embedded frame start signal (); demodulate the modulated embedded master-slave clock signal (); and re-create therefrom the system clock signal () and the frame start signal ().