US 7,739,487 B2 | Method for booting a host device from an MMC/SD device, a host device bootable from an MMC/SD device and an MMC/SD device method a host device may booted from

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US 7,739,487 B2

Method for booting a host device from an MMC/SD device, a host device bootable from an MMC/SD device and an MMC/SD device method a host device may booted from

Tech Center:

2100 Computer Architecture and Software

Examiner:

Abdelmoniem Elamin

Art Unit:

2116 Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems

Agent:

Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

Inventors:

Kimmo Mylly; Marko Ahvenainen

Assignee:

MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES LLC

Priority:

01/17/06

Filed:

01/17/06

Granted:

06/15/10

Expiration:

10/30/28

Abstract

Systems and methods for booting a host device(s) from a peripheral device(s), via an interface, such as an MMC/SD interface, with power terminals, a data bus with data bus terminals, a clock line with a clock terminal and a command line with command terminal. Power is provided to the power terminals, and the command terminal of the MMC/SD or analogous interface is set during power-up to low. The data bus is monitored for a start bit of data transmission.

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