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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Schuyler T. Patton, Jr., Dallas, TX (US);
Punya Prakash, Dallas, TX (US);
Melissa Marie Watkins, Dallas, TX (US);
Saqib Nadeem Mohammad, Sandy Springs, GA (US);
Bradley James Griffis, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2015.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); H04L 5/16 (2006.01); H04B 1/401 (2015.01); H04B 1/48 (2006.01); H04B 1/54 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4072 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); H04B 1/401 (2013.01); H04B 1/48 (2013.01); H04B 1/54 (2013.01); H04L 5/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
Signaling to control transmit/receive mode transitions of a serial half-duplex transceiver coupled externally to an integrated circuit is provided by the integrated circuit separately from a host processor of the integrated circuit with which the transceiver communicates. This can avoid slow transceiver turn-around times that may be associated with host processor control of the mode transitions.