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Bus system, printed circuit board, signal transmission line, series circuit and memory module

US6125419A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 13, 1997
Grant dateSep 26, 2000
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Expiry dateJun 13, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F13/4086
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

There are provided plural synchronous RAMs, a memory controller, a bus for inputting the signal output from the memory controller 1a to the synchronous RAMs, and a bus for inputting the signals output from the synchronous RAMs to the memory controller. Each of the buses has a main line and two stub lines connected to the trunk like. Each of the synchronous RAMs is connected to the corresponding stub line so that the sum of the bus length of the bus between the synchronous RAM and the memory controller and the bus length of the bus between the synchronous RAM and the memory controller is substantially constant among all of said synchronous RAMs. Therefore, the signal transmission time between the bus master and the plural bus slaves can be shortened without increasing the number of pins of the bus master while keeping the signal transmission time substantially constant among the plural bus slaves.

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