Logical-to-physical lane assignment to reduce clock power...

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2008-05-06

2008-05-06

Phan, Raymond N (Department: 2111)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Intrasystem connection

Bus interface architecture

C710S305000, C710S310000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11281718

ABSTRACT:
A bus permits the number of active serial data lanes of a data link to be re-negotiated in response to changes in bus bandwidth requirements. In one embodiment, clock buffers not required to drive active data lanes are placed in an inactive state to reduce clock power dissipation.

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