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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2012
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
David F. Heinrich, Tomball, TX (US);
Theodore F. Emerson, Tomball, TX (US);
Kevin B. Leigh, Houston, TX (US);
Vincent Nguyen, Houston, TX (US);
Andrew Brown, Houston, TX (US);
Gary Thome, Houston, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for flow control within a Serial Peripheral Interface without additional signal lines are included herein. In one example, a method includes generating a flow control command. The method also includes sending the flow control command from a master device to a slave device with a Serial Peripheral Interface. In addition, the method includes sending a memory address from the master device to the slave device. Furthermore, the method includes detecting a ready indicator in the master device. The method also includes waiting to receive a ready indicator and communicating with the slave device in response to the ready indicator.