Patent ID: RE39879

Claim:
A method of transmitting digital information, comprising the steps of: (a) transmitting a first word of a packet, comprising the steps of: (1) transmitting start information onto a first bus, wherein the start information indicates a start of the packet; (2) transmitting lower order memory address bits onto a first group of second bus lines of the bus ; and (3) transmitting first op code information onto an Nth a first bus line of the second bus lines, wherein N is an integer, and wherein the Nth first bus line is not a bus line within the first group of the second bus lines; and (b) transmitting a second word of the packet, comprising the steps of: (1) transmitting second op code information onto the first bus; (2) transmitting higher order memory address bits onto the first group of the second bus lines; and (3) transmitting third op code information onto the Nth first bus line of the second bus lines .