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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
May. 01, 2006
Applicants:
Stuart Ryan, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Jones, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Stuart Ryan, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Jones, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics N.V., , NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 13/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An interface is described which has at least one chip side port with a first plurality of pins for conveying fields of a packet and first and second circuit side ports each port having a set of pins with a lower number than the first set of pins in the chip side port. The interface is constructed so that interrupt signals from an off-chip circuit can be conveyed on-chip in a manner such that the interrupt signals are indistinguishable from interrupt signals received from on-chip modules connected to an on-chip communication path. The same principle is applicable to power-down signals.