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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1995
William Todd Krein, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles M Flaig, Cupertino, CA (US);
James D Kelly, Aptos, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A data system architecture and interface circuits permit slow devices having limited signal capacities to launch and receive information from a central bus. Data is clocked onto the bus with a master circuit at the leading and trailing edges of the bus clock so that portions of a large multibit signal are launched without having to wait for the initiation of a next clock cycle. Accordingly, data portions are launched during both leading and trailing edges of the clock signal. In the case of a simple bus device not able to accommodate inclusion of a slave interface circuit, the received signal packet is provided in adapted form anticipating that only a second half portion of the signal packet will actually be registered as received.