Patent ID: 8073009

Claim:
An integrated circuit comprising: a plurality of contacts to connect to an electronic component via respective signal lines; an interface having a plurality of transceivers, coupled to respective ones of the plurality of contacts, to simultaneously output to the electronic component a first number of parallel signals from a first plurality of contacts in the plurality of contacts and receive from the electronic component a second number of parallel signals on a second plurality of contacts in the plurality of contacts, the integrated circuit and the electronic component comprising a system having at least a system parameter; bandwidth-allocation logic, coupled to the plurality of transceivers, to dynamically alter the first and second numbers responsive to at least a bandwidth-allocation control signal; and bandwidth-allocation control logic coupled to the bandwidth-allocation logic to output the bandwidth-allocation control signal responsive to the system parameter that indicates a number of times at least one of the transceivers in the plurality of transceivers transitions between transmitting data and receiving data.