CE653 – Handshake Channel Based Design

2-Phase Bundled-Data

CE-653 - Handshake Channel Design

Data

Req

Ack

Bundled-Data Channel

Sender

Receiver

•Two-phase Bundled-Data Protocol

•Both rising and falling transitions on Req

•Means new data is available

•Both rising and falling transitions on Ack

•Means data has been acknowledged

•Sometimes called transition signalling

•It is the transition that is meaningful, not the values