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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan Ross, Woodinville, WA (US);
Robert Allen Shearer, Woodinville, WA (US);
Elene Terry, Los Altos, CA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A timing control system includes one or more device processors operatively coupled to one or more devices, a counter connected to the device processor(s), and a plurality of timing registers operatively coupled to the counter, each of the timing registers configured to store a value indicating a time at which an event is to be initiated at a corresponding one of the device(s). The system also includes a pulse generator operatively coupled to the counter and the timing registers, the pulse generator configured to generate one or more associated general-purpose input/output (GPIO) output signals, and send to each of the one or more devices an associated GPIO output signal to initiate the event at a plurality of the one or more devices in coordination with one another or to initiate the event at one of the one or more devices in coordination with another event at that device.