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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2001
Victor E. Jochiong, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Truong T. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Balkar S. Sidhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Diane S. Lee, Belmont, CA (US);
Victor E. Jochiong, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Truong T. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Balkar S. Sidhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Diane S. Lee, Belmont, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for remotely power cycling a peripheral subsystem. A host system to remotely control the power cycling of a peripheral subsystem, without the need to include or add any dedicated or special signals beyond those needed for the normal interface between the host system and peripheral subsystem. A peripheral subsystem according to the present invention includes circuitry that senses the presence of a downstream, running switching signal such as a clock line or any 'heart beat' type signal such as a clock pulse and initiates the power up event of the peripheral system. Conversely, the same circuitry also senses the absence of a downstream signal and initiates a power down event of the peripheral subsystem.