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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2006
Applicants:
Sergiu Goma, Markham, CA;
Fariborz Pourbigharaz, Markham, CA;
Milivoje Aleksic, Markham, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ATI Technologies ULC, Markham, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/36 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A buffer is associated with each of a plurality of data lanes of a multi-lane serial data bus. Data words are timed through the buffers of active ones of the data lanes. Words timed through buffers of active data lanes are merged onto a parallel bus such that data words from each of the active data lanes are merged onto the parallel bus in a pre-defined repeating sequence of data lanes. This approach allows other, non-active, data lanes to remain in a power conservation state.