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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles H Smoot, III, Orono, MN (US);
Ronald J Larson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Jeffry V Herring, Bloomington, MN (US);
Jean-Pierre Dupont, Chilly-Mazarin, FR;
Richard Matysiak, Orsay, FR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710-8 ; 710 58 ;
Abstract
A state machine bus controller for interfacing the CPU of a micro-computer based system with memory and I/O device is described. The controller, while capable of interfacing with a bus which is synchronous in nature, can maintain synchronous handshake with more than one type of microprocessor while providing function and timing parameters to satisfy requirements of an asynchronous bus and more than one type of device which reside on the bus.