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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2004
Donald V. Perino, Los Altos, CA (US);
Haw-jyh Liaw, Fremont, CA (US);
Alfredo Moncayo, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kevin Donnelly, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard M. Barth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bruno W. Garlepp, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Donald V. Perino, Los Altos, CA (US);
Haw-Jyh Liaw, Fremont, CA (US);
Alfredo Moncayo, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kevin Donnelly, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard M. Barth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bruno W. Garlepp, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rambus Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A chip-to-chip communication system and interface technique. A master and at least two devices are interconnected with a signal line of a high speed bus. A capacitive coupling element, for example a diode, is employed to capacitively couple the interface of the device to the signal line. By employing the capacitive coupling element, along with a suitable signaling technique which supports capacitive information transfer, high speed rates of information transfer between the master and device over the signal line are achieved.