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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
May. 27, 1999
David K Sanders, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sergio D Camerlo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for the distribution of VTT termination voltage for a GTL bus system includes a plurality of GTL signal lines, a plurality of first termination resistors, and a plurality of second termination resistors. The GTL signal lines have a first end and a second end. The resistors have a signal end and a VTT end. The first end of the signal line is connected to the signal end of the first resistor. The second end of the signal line is connected to the signal end of the first resistor. A plurality of nodes are formed from the VTT ends of the first and second resistors. These nodes may be formed in many different ways, and in many different numbers. The nodes are each driven with a separate VTT supply, and the nodes are interconnected such that a failure in the power supply furnishing power to one node does not affect the other nodes, and does not affect the operation of the system consuming this VTT voltage.