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Extended cardbus/pc card controller with split-bridge ™technology

US6594719B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 27, 2000
Grant dateJul 15, 2003
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Expiry dateApr 27, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F13/4045
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An improved extended cardbus/PC card controller (20) incorporating proprietary Split-Bridge™ high speed serial communication technology for interconnecting a conventional parallel system bus via a high speed serial link with a remote peripheral device. The extend cardbus/PC card controller is adapted to interface the parallel system bus, which may be PCI, PCMCIA, integrated, or some other parallel I/O bus architecture, with peripheral devices via PC cards, and now optionally via a high speed serial link using the proprietary serial Split-Bridge™ technology. The serial Split-Bridge™ technology provides real time interconnection between the parallel system bus and the remote device which may also be based on a parallel system data bus architecture, over a serial link, which serial link appears to be transparent between the buses and thus facilitates high speed data transfer exceeding data rates of 1.0 GigaHertz.

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