US 12,235,705 B2
Frame-based, low power interfaces between devices with different I/O signals
Mustafa Ulvi Erdogan, Allen, TX (US); Suzanne Mary Vining, Plano, TX (US); Bharath Kumar Singareddy, Bangalore (IN); and Douglas Edward Wente, Murphy, TX (US)
Assigned to Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Dec. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/534,911.
Application 18/534,911 is a continuation of application No. 17/330,027, filed on May 25, 2021, granted, now 11,874,718.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/131,880, filed on Dec. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0103595 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 1/3215 (2019.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/3215 (2013.01) [G06F 1/3253 (2013.01); G06F 13/385 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0042 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A repeater comprising:
a host-side squelch detector; and
a host-side receiver and a host-side transmitter, each coupled to the host-side squelch detector, and the host-side receiver and the host-side transmitter are configured to be in an inactive state for a second time period responsive to the host-side squelch detector determining that a micro frame discludes a data packet during a first time period.