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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:
Jun. 12, 2001

Filed:

Mar. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Peter D. MacWilliams, Aloha, OR (US);

Harry Muljono, Union City, CA (US);

Thomas J. Mozdzen, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus for communicating signals between a source synchronous component and a non-source synchronous component of a system is described. The present invention provides a strobe signal from the source synchronous component that is delayed and used to latch data received from a non-source synchronous component. The amount of delay provided is determined based on the timing of data request cycles to the non-source synchronous component. Thus, the present invention allows data to be received by a source synchronous component from a component that does not generate a strobe signal used for latching received data that would be generated by a source synchronous component.


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