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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1998
Giuseppe Bosisio, Milan, IT;
Bull HN Information Systems Italia S.P.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A slave device, connected directly to a system bus, which system bus requests the execution of a complex communication protocol, is controlled by another device, connected to the system bus, which identifies the slave device as the target of a transaction on the system bus, executes the communication protocol and sends to the slave device through an auxiliary interface a first identification signal, a second signal for instructing execution of the transaction, and receives from the slave device, through the auxiliary interface, a transaction executed signal. In this way the interface logic of the slave device is reduced to the minimum since the slave device is not required to execute the communication protocol.