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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2000
Nobutaka Nakamura, Hidaka, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
In this invention, the bus of a computer body is connected to the bus of an expansion unit through a serial interface so as to implement connection wirings in the form of a serial cable. A PCI-PCI bridge for connecting a primary PCI bus to a secondary PCI bus comprises two physically isolated controllers, i.e., a primary PCI serial transfer controller implemented on the PC body side and a secondary PCI serial transfer controller implemented on the docking station side. The two controllers are connected to each other through serial LVDS lines. Transactions are exchanged between the primary PCI bus and the secondary PCI bus by serial transfer between the primary PCI serial transfer controller and the secondary PCI serial transfer controller.