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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2005
Dae Woon Kang, Lafayette, CO (US);
Dae Woon Kang, Lafayette, CO (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a versatile system for management of clocking for a serial interface. Serial input data, comprising a plurality of fields, and preceded by a specific input pattern, is provided to a receiver element. Within one of the fields in the serial input data, some information concerning the size the current serial data payload is included. Responsive to receiving the specific input pattern, the system of the present invention asserts a clock enable signal to activate clocking. A countdown corresponding to the size the current serial data payload is initiated. Once that countdown has reached zero, the clocking for the interface is disabled.