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Using subordinate bus devices that are connected to a common bus

US5911055A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 5, 1996
Grant dateJun 8, 1999
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Expiry dateJun 5, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F13/404
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer system has a central processing unit and a bus. A first bus device and a second bus device are connected to the bus. A circuit is connected to configure the second bus device to be addressable by the central processing unit via the bus only by interaction with the first bus device. The first bus device may be an I.sub.2 O processor, and the second bus device may be an I.sub.2 O subordinate bus device.

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