METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GAP COUNT DETERMINATION

摘要

A method and apparatus for determining a gap count for a serial bus network (100) is described. A round-trip delay time for transmitting a packet from a first leaf node to a second leaf node and back over a communication path between the nodes for each pair of leaf nodes (302) in the network is determined. A maximum round-trip delay time (304) for each communication path is calculated. A node latency delay time (306) for each leaf node in the network is determined. A longest maximum round-trip delay time (308) and a longest node latency delay time is selected for the network, and a gap count (310) is calculated using the selected times.