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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2002
Jack E. Olson, Tulsa, OK (US);
Joe C. Bollinger, Tulsa, OK (US);
John T. Rathbone, Broken Arrow, OK (US);
Jack E. Olson, Tulsa, OK (US);
Joe C. Bollinger, Tulsa, OK (US);
John T. Rathbone, Broken Arrow, OK (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a synchronous I/O interface buss system. The system includes a master-buss controller that generates a system timing signal. The master-buss controller transmits a time-division multiplexed (TDM) slave output data signal and receives a time-division multiplexed (TDM) slave input data signal. The TDM slave output data signal and the TDM slave input data signal are synchronous relative to the system timing signal. A buss is coupled to the master-buss controller. The buss propagates the system timing signal, the TDM slave output data signal, and the TDM slave input data signal. At least one slave device is coupled to the buss. The at least one slave device is in synchronicity with the system timing signal. The at least one slave device demultiplexed slave device output data in device-ready format from the TDM slave output data signal during a predetermined output data signal time slot. The at least one slave device also multiplexes slave input data in file-ready format into the TDM slave input data signal during a predetermined input data signal time slot.