| CPC G06F 1/324 (2013.01) [G06F 1/3215 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims | 

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               1. An apparatus, comprising: 
            node circuitry configured to communicate via a data bus according to a data rate; 
                data rate limiter circuitry configured to control the data rate; and 
                first toggle detector circuitry configured to: 
                determine a toggle rate between consecutive clock cycles for data on the data bus, wherein the toggle rate corresponds to a number of bits that changed on the data bus between consecutive clock cycles; and 
                  provide toggle information to the data rate limiter circuitry based on the determined toggle rate; 
                wherein the data rate limiter circuitry is configured to limit the data rate for the node circuitry based on: 
              one or more limit inputs; and 
                  the provided toggle information. 
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