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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 27, 1995
Thomas Niedermeier, Rosenheim, DE;
Peter Rohm, Pfaffenhofen/Ilm, DE;
Richard Schmid, Munchen, DE;
David Flynn, Cambridge, GB;
Peter Klapproth, Je Eindhoven, NL;
Frederik Zandveld, CL Bergeyk, NL;
Jacobus Christophorus Koot, TS Eindhoven, NL;
Andrew Michael Jones, Bristol, GB;
James Graham Matthew, Wiltshire, GB;
Bruno Douady, Paris, FR;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Advanced Risc Machines Ltd., Cambridge, GB;
Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Inmos Ltd., Bristol, GB;
Matra MHS S.A., Nantes, FR;
Abstract
A method and a circuit configuration for operation of a bus system. A bus includes a bus control unit which controls only an arbitration and when time is exceeded during a data transmission. An actual data transmission is determined in a respective active master unit and an addressed slave unit. A characteristic of a bus cycle, such as a data length, access to a data area or a control area and a waiting cycle, is transmitted in encoded form through a multiplicity of control lines.