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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1999
Christophe Lecoutre, Saint Cyr l'ecole, FR;
Isabelle Izaute, Paris, FR;
Stephen J. Swift, San Diego, CA (US);
ELA Medical S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Abstract
An interconnection structure including an interconnection artery ensuring the parallel transfer, on a group of conductors, of information to be exchanged, configured in at least one ring ( ) on which information circulates in a closed loop and in a one-way direction. The artery has a plurality of coupling points to the addressable elements of the microcomputer. Some of the points of coupling ( ) include a register associated with the corresponding addressable element with the microcomputer, and others include a gateway (G , G . . . . GN) towards, and from, another ring of a lower order, on which lower order ring information also circulates in a closed loop and in a one-way direction. This results in a structure of plurality of hierarchised rings. The interconnection structure is particularly useful for battery operated processor controlled devices, such as active implantable medical devices, pacemakers, defibrillators and the like.