Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
Interface device, communications system, non-volatile storage device, communication mode switching method and integrated circuit
A host device and a slave device are set to a full-duplex mode by temporarily switching the communication direction of a first transmission channel or a second transmission channel after completing transmission and reception of a predetermined number of data packets in the half-duplex mode. The host device or the slave device can thus transmit an interrupt request, such as a request associated with a wait status or a busy status, to its communication target using the temporary full-duplex mode. This enables the host device or the slave device to process such an interrupt request during high-speed data transfer performed in the half-duplex mode.
Panasonic Corporation
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inventional inventional inventional
Hiroshi Shinichiro Tadashi Isao Hideyuki Tsutomu
Suenaga Nishioka Ono Kato Yamada Sekibe