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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
May. 29, 2009
Tadashi Ono, Osaka, JP;
Isao Kato, Osaka, JP;
Hideyuki Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Shinichiro Nishioka, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Suenaga, Osaka, JP;
Tsutomu Sekibe, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadashi Ono, Osaka, JP;
Isao Kato, Osaka, JP;
Hideyuki Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Shinichiro Nishioka, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Suenaga, Osaka, JP;
Tsutomu Sekibe, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A host device and a slave device are set to a full-duplex mode by temporarily switching the communication direction of a first transmission channel or a second transmission channel after completing transmission and reception of a predetermined number of data packets in the half-duplex mode. The host device or the slave device can thus transmit an interrupt request, such as a request associated with a wait status or a busy status, to its communication target using the temporary full-duplex mode. This enables the host device or the slave device to process such an interrupt request during high-speed data transfer performed in the half-duplex mode.