Michael Len Hawthorne

US Patent:

20070236273, Oct 11, 2007

Filed:

Apr 5, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/398289

Inventors:

Michael Hawthorne - Raleigh NC, US
Mohamad Tawil - Cary NC, US

International Classification:

H03K 17/04

US Classification:

327376000

Abstract:

Setting a reference voltage for a bus agent including identifying a present configuration of a bus, the bus including conductive pathways connected to bus agents, the bus agents including computer hardware devices that use the bus for data communications among bus agents, the present configuration of the bus including the identity of the bus, the identities of one or more bus agents presently connected to the bus, and the order in which the bus agents presently are connected to the bus; identifying a reference voltage value for each bus agent; and applying a reference voltage to each bus agents in dependence upon the identified reference voltage value for each bus agent.