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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1995
Richard S LaBarbera, Roanoke, VA (US);
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An apparatus used in connecting computer devices which are coupled together by at least one dual line cable assembly. The invention comprises at least one converter adapter having an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit according to the invention is capable of (1) multiplexing and then serializing parallel bus and tag information received from one or more interfaces of one of the computer devices and sending such multiplexed serial information over a first line of the dual line cable assembly to another computer device and (2) deserializing and then demultiplexing serial bus and tag information received over a second line of the dual line cable assembly and sending such parallel and demultiplexed information to one or more interfaces of the first computer device.