Patent ID: 7254659

Claim:
A method of performing a VMEbus split-read transaction, comprising: providing a master VMEbus module coupled to a slave VMEbus module through a VMEbus network; the master VMEbus module initiating a VMEbus split-read transaction request in a VME address encoding phase to the slave VMEbus module, wherein the VMEbus split-read transaction request comprises a return address for the master VMEbus module in the VME address encoding phase, and wherein the VMEbus split-read transaction request requests a set of data; the master VMEbus module releasing the VMEbus network; the slave VMEbus module acquiring the VMEbus network; the slave VMEbus module placing the set of data on the VMEbus network, wherein the set of data comprises the return address for the master VMEbus module; and the master VMEbus module retrieving the set of data.