Patent ID: 6557051
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of reading and writing data at an integrated circuit serial interface, the method comprising:receiving a sequence of Read commands and Write commands at an integrated circuit; when a Read command is received and is followed immediately by a Write command, on a first communication channel: reading an ordered sequence of data read units, numbered 1, 2, . . . , N on a second communication channel, where N is a selected positive integer representing the number of consecutive data units in a data word; writing an ordered sequence of data write data units, numbered 1, 2, . . . , Nâˆ’1, on the first channel simultaneously when the data read units numbered 2, . . . , N are being read on the second channel; and writing a data write data unit number N on the first channel after the read data units number 1, 2, . . . , N have been read on the second channel.