Patent ID: 9672182
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for transferring a high-speed data signal within a system comprising a master device and a plurality of slave devices, the method comprising: connecting the master device and the plurality of slave devices through high-speed links between high-speed interfaces, comprised by the master device and each of the plurality of slave devices, respectively, thereby forming a closed ring; providing a common clock signal by the master device to each of the slave devices; assigning, to each of the master device and the plurality of slave devices in the closed ring, a respective latency; indicating, to each of the master device and the plurality of slave devices, a sum of the latencies of all other devices in the closed ring; and using a high-speed interface communication method for communication between the master device and the plurality of slave devices through the high-speed links.