Patent ID: 7043653
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for synchronous signal transmission between a first component that sends signals and a second component that receives the signals, which comprises the steps of: furnishing an internal clock signal of the second component as a reference clock to the first component over at least one clock line; delaying the reference clock, arriving over the clock line, with an aid of at least one delay unit of the first component, in such a way as to delay a starting time for each cycle of the transmission clock relative to a starting time for each cycle of the reference clock by one cycle time, minus twice a signal transit time of the reference clock, over the clock line between the first component and the second component; and generating, with an aid of the reference clock received and delayed, a transmission clock for an output unit of the first component in such a way that the signals transmitted over a signal line between the first component and the second component are output synchronously with the reference clock.