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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2014
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Asaf Carmeli, Kfar Saba, IL;

Ben Gilboa, Tel-Aviv, IL;

Avi Baum, Giva't Shmuel, IL;

Barak Cherches, Ramat Hakovesh, IL;

Mukesh Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4418 (2013.01); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); G06F 13/1673 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2013.01); G06F 13/4291 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1228 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1235 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method is disclosed that enables a peripheral or slave device to seamlessly transition in and out of sleep state while remaining completely transparent to host software. When the device is in a sleep mode and incoming data is detected, the device begins a wake-up procedure and data is routed to a first, transitional memory. The size of the transitional memory is selected such that it is capable of buffering data received during time required for the system memory to stabilize from wake-up. Once a second, extended memory is stabilized, the data is buffered from the transitional memory to the extended memory. The device resumes normal operation when its processor has initialized and can read data from the extended memory.


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