摘要:
A printed circuit board (PCB) processor card is described. The processor card includes a processor, its associated processor card system bus, a clock generator, and its associated processor card system clock bus. The processor card is designed to include the elements that are most likely to be upgraded, i.e. the processor and the clock. As such it is particularly useful when employed for system upgrades.
摘要:
To interface a system control unit with an input/unit in a computer system, an interface includes a transmitter for sequentially transmitting data packets and parity signals between the system control unit and the input/output unit, and a receiver for sequentially receiving the data packets and parity signals. The receiver includes a buffer for storing a plurality of the data packets. The stored data packets are controllably unloaded from the buffer, and a buffer emptied signal is sent back to the transmitter as each data packet is unloaded. The transmitter has a counter which calculates the number of data packets stored in the buffer and asserts a signal that prevents the transmitter from transmitting additional data packets when the buffer becomes full. The receiver compares the parity of the received data packets to the respective parity signals to check for parity errors. The receiver sends an acknowledge signal back to the transmitter in the absence of a parity error, and sends a retry signal back to the transmitter in the presence of a parity error. Preferably the data packets are transmitted along with a separate transmitter clock signal and respective command available signals, and the returned signals are sent back to the transmitter with a separate receiver clock signal, to permit synchronous reception of the data packets or returned signals. Respective data synchronizers in the transmitter and receiver eliminate the effect of skew between the transmitter and receiver clock signals.
摘要:
A memory device having a scalable bandwidth I/O data bus includes a semiconductor die having a substrate with a first and a second surface. The substrate includes contact pads arranged in rows across the first surface and across the second surface. The contact pads on one surface may be physically arranged in vertical alignment with a corresponding contact pad on the other surface and may be electrically coupled to the corresponding contact pad using a via. The substrate also includes a metallization layer formed on the second surface. The metallization layer includes external data contact pads each arranged in vertical alignment with a respective contact pad on the second surface. Each row of contact pads may be grouped, and the external contact pads within a group are electrically coupled to an adjacent contact pad on the second surface by effectively logically shifting them to the right one contact pad.
摘要:
A portable computer system such as a laptop computer system includes a computing subsystem that includes a processor that may execute instructions that implement application software, and a storage coupled to the processor that may store information. The laptop computer system also includes a wireless subsystem that may communicate with a wireless network. In addition, the wireless subsystem may receive an incoming communication and determine whether a requesting user is an authorized user. The processor may retrieve at least a portion of the information from the storage and send the retrieved information to a destination via email, for example, in response to a request by the requesting user for the information.
摘要:
A system including asymmetric control of high-speed bidirectional signaling includes a slave device and a master device that is coupled to the slave device via a plurality of bidirectional data paths, for example. The master device may control data transfer between the master device and the slave device. More particularly, the master device may adaptively modify transmit characteristics subsequent to adaptively modifying receiver characteristics based upon information received from the slave device via one or more unidirectional data paths.
摘要:
A system including a host coupled to a serially connected chain of memory modules. In one embodiment, each of the memory modules includes a memory control hub for controlling access to a plurality of memory chips on the memory module. The memory modules are coupled serially in a chain to the host via a plurality of memory links. Each memory link may include an uplink for conveying transactions toward the host and a downlink for conveying transactions originating at the host to a next memory module in the chain. The uplink and the downlink may convey transactions using packets that include control and configuration packets and memory access packets. The memory control hub may convey a transaction received on a first downlink of a first memory link on a second downlink of a second memory link independent of decoding the transaction.
摘要:
A portable computer system such as a laptop computer system includes a processor coupled to a wireless module that may communicate with a computer network via a connection to a wireless network. In addition, portable computer system includes an authentication unit that may be coupled to the wireless module and configured to generate and provide authentication information to the wireless module. The wireless module may be further configured to provide the authentication information to the computer network in response to a challenge from the computer network during a initiation of the connection to the computer network without intervention of the processor. In addition, the wireless module may enable features such as authenticating a remote admin-level user, which may further enable that user to perform security related functions through the wireless module.
摘要:
The clock configuration of a printed circuit board (PCB) processor card is described. A processor card including a processor, its associated processor card system bus, a clock generator, and its associated processor card system clock bus is optimized by providing various clock configurations and distributions. In one configuration, multiple clock signals are coupled to a system clock bus for distributing to a host card having system devices. In another configuration, multiple clock signals having various clock rates are coupled to the processor device on the processor card.
摘要:
A computer system connector panel including EMI filtering on the computer system housing connector panel instead of on the system motherboard so that I/O signals are filtered just before being transmitted out of the computer system housing thereby reducing EMI affects on external A/V devices.
摘要:
The present invention, generally speaking, provides a system and method of decoupling the address and data buses of a system bus using side band information signals. A computer system with which the invention may be used has a system bus including an address bus and a data bus and has, operatively connected to said system bus, multiple master devices, including a microprocessor, and multiple slave devices. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the address bus and the data bus are decoupled by providing, in addition to signals carried by the system bus, first side-band signals including, for each master device besides the microprocessor, an address arbitration signal, and providing, in addition to signals carried by the system bus, second side-band signals including, for each slave device, an address termination signal, a data arbitration signal, and a read-ready signal indicating that a respective slave device has data to present on the system bus. An address arbitration vector is formed, composed of address arbitration signals for the master devices, an address termination vector is formed, composed of address termination signals for the slave devices, and a read-ready vector is formed, composed of read-ready signals for the slave devices. The address arbitration vector and the address termination vector are sampled. Using a queue structure having a front and a rear, pairs of address arbitration and address termination vectors sampled at different sampling times are queued. Given a pair of address arbitration and address termination vectors at the head of the queue structure and a subsequent, corresponding read-ready vector, a data arbitration signal is issued to one of the slave devices and one of the master devices, as a "paired data bus grant."