HYBRID PARALLEL/SERIAL BUS INTERFACE.

摘要

A hybrid serial/parallel bus interface has a data block demultiplexing device (40). The data block demultiplexing device (40) has an input configured to receive a data block and demultiplexes the data block into a plurality of nibbles (42(2)). For each nibble, a parallel to serial converter (42i) converts the nibble into serial data. A line transfers each nibble's serial data. A serial to parallel converter (46i) converts each nibble's serial data to recover that nibble. A data block reconstruction device (48) combines the recovered nibbles into the data block.