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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey R. Jobs, Blaine, MN (US);
Paul J. Voit, Coon Rapids, MN (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A computer system having a primary serial bus and one or more serial sub-busses separated from the primary serial bus by gating devices is described. By selectively enabling different gating devices (thereby coupling one serial sub-bus to the primary serial bus at a time), each sub-bus may support the maximum number of addressable devices. This, in turn, expands the effective serial bus address space of the computer system.