Patent ID: 7159064
Filing Date: 2007-01-02
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing in a memory device a module for generating at least one further signal, the memory device operatively connected to a host module via a bus system comprising one or more signal lines and N data lines for conveying signals and data between the host module and the memory device, wherein the host module is operable in a plurality of data modes, said plurality of data modes including at least one data mode that is designated to use M data lines to convey data between the host module and the memory device with M smaller than N, leaving (N−M) unused data lines in the bus system; and causing an exchange of data, based on said at least one further signal, between the host module and the memory device using at least one of the unused data lines even when the host module is operated in said at least one data mode.