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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000

Filed:

Jan. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Tommaso Bacigalupo, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael Erdmann, Munchen, DE;

Peter Rohm, Pfaffenhofen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709208 ; 709200 ; 709209 ; 709227 ; 709232 ; 709245 ; 710-4 ; 710 11 ; 710 14 ; 710 20 ; 710 21 ; 710 33 ; 710110 ; 710129 ; 710131 ;
Abstract

The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for operating a bus system having at least one master unit and at least one slave unit, having a bus and a bus control unit for the bus arbitration and for controlling the data transfer. The data transmission is split into a request data transfer and a response data transfer, and, in the time between the request data transfer and the response data transfer, the bus is cleared for the data transmissions of other master units in a first data transmission configuration, or the bus is blocked between the request data transfer and the response data transfer, in a second data transmission configuration and slave units. In the case of a response transfer, the master and slave are changed round.


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