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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1999
Robert G. Gugel, Garland, TX (US);
Merril R. Newman, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Burke S. Henehan, Dallas, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An IEEE 1394 serial bus ( ) is interfaced utilizing a physical layer ( ) to extract the data and a link/transaction layer controller ( ) to interface the data from the physical layer ( ) to a host system. The host system consists of a peripheral device ( ) which is interfaced with various host buses ( ). The link/transaction layer controller ( ) is operable to emulate the microcontroller function such that addresses can be transmitted to the peripheral device ( ) along with data, such that a remote node can access the peripheral device ( ) by transmitting address and data information thereto. Alternatively, address and data information can be transmitted from the peripheral device ( ) to the controller ( ) which will process the received address and data and transmit it to a remote node.