Ronald Lee Weir

US Patent:

55510523, Aug 27, 1996

Filed:

Feb 14, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/389612

Inventors:

Eric S. Barnes - Manhattan Beach CA
George L. Eldridge - Long Beach CA
Uoc Nguyen - Long Beach CA
Ajit Shah - Laguna Niguel CA
Ronald E. Weir - Torrance CA

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06F 946
G06F 13362
G06F 1342
G06F 1340

US Classification:

395800

Abstract:

A protocol for communication through a bus controller to control data transfers between a host processing platform and the data bus of a bit map printer. This protocol is optimized for a data bus which connects a number of ASIC accelerator cards in addition to the printer, disk controller, bus controller and other typical system cards. The basic data transfer cycle transfers eight data words on the bus between ASIC's, I/O devices, printer and any other devices.