Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Synchronization of clock or timing signals – data – or pulses
Patent
1998-04-30
2000-06-27
Heckler, Thomas M.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Synchronization of clock or timing signals, data, or pulses
G06F 112
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ABSTRACT:
A system and method for enabling chips which operate at different frequencies to communicate and which insures synchronous data transfers while maintaing data integrity during clock starting and stopping for multiple chip intercommunication enables chips of different techonologies to be used in the same system and yet maintain synchronous communication between chips operating at the different frequencies. The clock chip will issue a signal to all the chips in the system to start their clocks and begin processing data between two chips that run at different frequency multiples with a fast chip communicating to a chip that is a gear ratio of X times as slow and knowing when to send and receive data at the slow chips rate in order to guarantee that all transfers complete successfully. The slow chip knows when it initiates a launch to the fast chip, the fast chip has had its clocks running long enough to receive that data. A logic mechinism is provided to stop the clocks to all the chips in the system.
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Chencinski Edward William
McNamara Timothy Gerard
Augspurger Lynn L.
Heckler Thomas M.
International Business Machines - Corporation
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