The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 15, 1998
Takayasu Muto, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A serial interface circuit capable of converting a large volume of data into packets based on a predetermined standard for transmission and reception and capable of performing smooth transmission and reception processing, configured so that, in a reception operation, a request packet generation circuit generates a request packet and calculates the maximum length of data of the response packet with respect to the request packet transmitted and a transaction controller compares the maximum length of data maxpl with the remaining memory amount of the response use FIFO and, when the remaining memory amount is larger than the maximum length of data, transmits the request packet. When the remaining memory amount is smaller than the maximum length of data maxpl, the output of the request packet to the link core, that is, the transmission of the request packet to the other node, is temporarily suspended until the remaining memory amount becomes larger than the maximum length of data maxpl.