Apparatus and method for sharing a bus in a mobile telecommunication handset

• US 8,127,051 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2006
• Issued: 02/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Sang-Rae
• Primary Examiner(s): TSENG, CHENG YUAN
• Application Number:
  US11/485,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20070015524A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,056 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 710/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/0685 Clock or time synchronisation in a node; Intranode synchronisation

Abstract

An apparatus and method for sharing a bus in a mobile telecommunication handset are provided. In one embodiment, a mobile telecommunication handset comprises a first device, a second device, a shared bus, a memory configured to store a reference clock frequency, and a controller configured to simultaneously receive first data from the first device and transmit second data to the second device via the shared bus based on a clock signal of the reference clock frequency. The first device is configured to forward the first data received by the controller, and the second device is configured to receive the second data transmitted by the controller.

Claims

1. A mobile telecommunication handset, comprising:

a first device configured to generate first data;

a second device configured to process second data;

a shared bus;

a memory configured to store a reference clock frequency; and

a controller coupled to the first device and the second device via the shared bus, the controller configured to

simultaneously receive the first data from the first device and transmit the second data to the second device via the shared bus based on a clock signal of the reference clock frequency, wherein the first device is configured to forward the first data received by the controller and the second device is configured to receive the second data transmitted by the controller; and

generate a guard clock to separate the first data from the second data based on the guard clock frequency,

wherein the first data is carried via a first pulse by which the first data is received from the first device and the second data is carried by a second pulse by which the second data is transmitted to the second device, and

wherein the first pulse and the second pulse are interspersed according to the reference clock frequency.

2. The mobile telecommunication handset according to claim 1, wherein the controller comprises a module for determining to which of the devices the data is to be input and from which of the devices the data is to be output.

3. The mobile telecommunication handset according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to generate a high impedance to reduce interference between the first data from the first device and the second data to the second device.

4. The mobile communication handset according to claim 1, wherein the first device comprises a camera device and the second device comprises a display device.

5. The mobile telephone handset according to claim 1, wherein a frequency of the guard clock is half of the reference clock frequency.

6. A method of controlling a mobile telecommunication handset having a memory, a first device configured to generate first data, a second device configured to process second data, and a controller coupled to the first device and the second device via a shared bus, the method comprising:

simultaneously receiving the first data from the first device and transmitting the second data to the second device by the controller via the shared bus based on a clock signal of a reference clock frequency stored in the memory; and

generating a guard clock to separate the first data from the second data based on the guard clock frequency,

wherein the first data is carried via a first pulse by which the first data is received from the first device and the second data is carried by a second pulse by which the second data is transmitted to the second device, and

wherein the first pulse and the second pulse are interspersed according to the reference clock frequency.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a frequency of the guard clock is half of the reference clock frequency.