Patent ID: 7287208
Filing Date: 2007-10-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a system that includes a master component that is configured to communicate with one or more slave components over a clock wire and a data wire, a method for the master component reliably communicating with the one or more slave components using a guaranteed header two-wire interface, the method comprising the following: an act of determining that a read operation is to be performed on a slave component of the one or more slave components; an act of transmitting at least a portion of a frame to the one or more slave components using the data wire, the portion of the frame identifying the read operation; an act of transferring control of the data wire to the slave component; an act of receiving reliability data from the slave component over the data wire; and an act of using the reliability data to determine if there is a problem with the read operation being performed on the slave component.