Appeal No. 1997-0416
Application No. 08/125,406
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a system and method for restarting a peripheral
bus clock signal and requesting mastership of a peripheral bus. The stopping and
restarting of the clock are disclosed as a power saving feature. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 14, which is reproduced
below.
14. A method for re-starting a peripheral bus clock signal and requesting
mastership of a peripheral bus comprising the steps of:
stopping said peripheral bus clock signal upon the occurrence of a
predetermined condition;
generating an asynchronous clock request signal within an alternate bus
master;
re-starting said peripheral bus clock signal in response to said
asynchronous clock request signal; and
generating a synchronous bus request signal within said alternate bus
master to request mastership of said peripheral bus after said
peripheral bus clock signal has been re-started, wherein said
synchronous bus request signal is synchronous to said peripheral bus
clock signal.
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