Patent ID: 6356967
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of increasing plug-in unit slots in a high capacity passive bus combining with one another the plug-in units connected to the bus, the method comprising:dividing the bus into at least two physically separate bus segments in such a way that at a point of division the bus segment conductors will run in parallel over some distance, locating at least one plug-in unit slot at the point of division, locating a circuit unit in the plug-in unit slot to perform a bridging function between the bus segments in a pipeline type manner, whereby the physically separate bus segments will form one logical bus, and wherein the bridging function is performed by using interleaving of time slots, where data received from a first bus segment in a first time slot is transmitted to a second bus segment into a second time slot, which is a time slot immediately following the first time slot, and where the first time slot and the second time slot will form a logical channel so that the data received from the first bus segment in the first time slot is transmitted to the second bus segment into the second time slot, whereby the logical bus capacity is divided equally to each bus segment.