Patent ID: 7774526

Claim:
A method for transmitting a set of data frames from a first component to a second component, the first and second components both being connected by a set of pins to the same printed circuit board, the method comprising: forming each data frame in the set of data frames to have at least a control field, an address field, and a data field, wherein each data field includes a plurality of bits; the control field being a fixed-length, the fixed-length of the control field being the same for each data frame in the set of data frames; the address field being a fixed-length, the fixed-length of the address field being the same for each data frame in the set of data frames; the data field being a fixed-length, the fixed-length of the data field being the same for each data frame in the set of data frames; mapping, at the first component, the data field into each data frame in the set of data frames so that each bit of the data field is mapped to correspond to a specific pin on a parallel interface of the second component; transmitting each data frame in the set of data frames to the second component at least partly on a serial bus; and converting each data frame in the set of data frames to be received on the parallel interface on the second component.