Patent ID: 7913015

Claim:
An implantable medical device bus system, comprising: a streaming bus delivering periodic data between a plurality of subsystems of an implantable medical device, the streaming bus includes a plurality of streaming data conductors, a data clock conductor, and a configuration clock conductor; a plurality of bus interface circuits coupled to the streaming bus, each of the plurality of bus interface circuits coupled to one of the plurality of subsystems in the implantable medical device; a streaming bus controller coupled to the streaming bus, the streaming bus controller multiplexes the streaming bus into a plurality of time slots per frame for transmitting streaming data on the streaming data conductors, the streaming bus controller selectively sending configuration clock signals on the configuration clock conductor with configuration data on the streaming data conductors between the streaming data on the streaming data conductors within a single frame, the configuration data assigning time slots in the plurality of time slots to one or more of the subsystems in the implantable medical device, wherein a streaming data byte is broadcast on the streaming bus in an assigned time slot with no destination address.