Patent ID: 6904479

Claim:
A method for controlling transmission of data from a sender to a receiver via a data bus to minimize digital inter-symbol interference, comprising the steps of: (A) executing a start data transfer command; (B) waiting for a FIFO register at the sender to be holding the data and determining when the FIFO register is holding the data; (C) driving the data held in the FIFO register onto the data bus; (D) pausing a first predetermined period of time for the data to be set up on the data bus; (E) asserting a REQ command associated with the data onto the data bus; and then (F) pausing a second predetermined period of time longer than the first predetermined period of time for the data and the REQ command to be sensed by detection circuitry in the receiver, wherein pausing for the second predetermined period of time provides the detection circuitry additional time to sense the data and the REQ command being transmitted on the data bus.