Slot-token protocol

Details Slot-token protocol Slot-token protocol

1996-02-28

1998-06-16

Sheikh, Ayaz R.

395309, 39520038, 3952005, G06F 1314, G06F 15177

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057685436

ABSTRACT:
A slot token protocol for establishing and terminating data-links over a serial bus shared by multiple devices with low overhead, no supporting hardware, a low collision rate, and fast collision resolution. Of the devices sharing the serial bus, one device is designated as the master device with the remaining devices being designated as slave devices. The master device is responsible for controlling allocation of the serial bus between each of the slave devices so that only one slave device controls the bus at a time. The master device achieves this by requiring slave devices to submit bus requests before the requesting slave device is allocated control over the serial bus. In addition, a busy bus line may be included to reduce the likelihood of a data collision on the serial bus by connecting the master an slave devices with a bus busy line and allowing a slave device to signal to the other slave devices over the bus busy line that it intends to transmit a bus request. A protocol manager associated with the master device and each slave device synchronizes the operation of the master and slave devices by the implementation of specific state logic. Further, the master device is responsible for resolving bus collisions when multiple slave devices attempt to transmit bus requests at the same time over the serial and their bus request collide.

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