Abstract: Detecting data transmission errors in an I2C system that includes a source device, an destination device, and a signal line coupling the I2C source and destination device, including: receiving, by the I2C destination device from the I2C source device, a data transmission signal, the data transmission signal encoded with a set of bits; detecting, by the I2C destination device, rise time of a preselected bit in the set of bits; if the detected rise time is less than a predefined threshold, determining that the I2C source device injected a parity bit in the signal, and if the detected rise time is not less than the predefined threshold, determining that the I2C source device did not inject a parity bit in the signal; and determining whether the data transmission signal includes an error in dependence upon the parity of the set of bits.

Abstract: A computer processor retention device comprises a load frame, a load plate, and a pair of retractable cover members. The load frame may be secured to a circuit board around a processor mounting site. The load plate is pivotally coupled to the load frame and is pivotable between being open for receiving a processor at the processor mounting site and closed in engagement with a periphery of the received processor. The load plate has a window that is open to the processor mounting site when the load plate is closed. The retractable cover members span the window and are alternately movable along a track toward one another to cover the processor mounting site and away from one another to expose the processor mounting site.

Abstract: Detecting data transmission errors in an I2C system that includes a source device, an destination device, and a signal line coupling the I2C source and destination device, including: receiving, by the I2C destination device from the I2C source device, a data transmission signal, the data transmission signal encoded with a set of bits; detecting, by the I2C destination device, rise time of a preselected bit in the set of bits; if the detected rise time is less than a predefined threshold, determining that the I2C source device injected a parity bit in the signal, and if the detected rise time is not less than the predefined threshold, determining that the I2C source device did not inject a parity bit in the signal; and determining whether the data transmission signal includes an error in dependence upon the parity of the set of bits.

Abstract: Operating a demultiplexer on an I2C bus, the demultiplexer including a set of input signal lines from an I2C master and a plurality of sets of output signal lines, the demultiplexer configured to couple the inputs among the output in dependence upon a demultiplexer select signal line that couples the demultiplexer to a rise time detection circuit, where the rise time detection circuit is also coupled to the input signal lines and the rise time detection circuit: monitors a voltage of at least one of the input signal lines, including: receiving, from the I2C master, a signal on one of the lines; and detecting rise time of the signal; and if the rise time of the signal is less than a predefined threshold, configuring the demultiplexer to vary the coupling of the input signal lines from a first set of outputs to a second set.

Abstract: Chip select (‘CS’) multiplication in an SPI system that includes an SPI master, a CS multiplier, a plurality of SPI slaves, and a fall time detection circuit, where the SPI master is coupled to the CS multiplier and the fall time detection circuit by a CS signal line, the CS multiplier includes a plurality of CS outputs with each CS output coupled to an SPI slave, and CS multiplication includes: receiving, from the SPI master, the CS signal on the CS signal line; detecting fall time of the CS signal; and, if the fall time of the CS signal is less than a predefined threshold, configuring, by the fall-time detection circuit, the CS multiplier to vary from providing a CS signal on a first CS output to providing a CS signal on a second CS output.

Abstract: Optimizing an I2C bus frequency, the bus including signal lines coupling a master and slave nodes, a signal line coupled to a rise time detection circuit monitoring a voltage of the signal line, the voltage alternating between a logic low and logic high, where optimizing the frequency includes: detecting, during a rise in the signal line, a first voltage, the first voltage being greater than the logic low voltage; starting a counter to increment once for each clock period of the circuit; detecting a second voltage on the signal line, the second voltage greater than the first and less than the logic high; stopping the counter; calculating, in dependence upon the clock period and the counter value, a rise time; determining whether the rise time is greater than a maximum threshold; and increasing the I2C bus frequency if the calculated rise time is greater than the maximum threshold.