Abstract: Communication system including a host and a device. The host has an oscillator and the device has a USB-function core. The oscillator in the host is coupled to the USB-function core in the device.

Abstract: A communication apparatus for communication according to a master-slave communication protocol is formed as a slave instance communicating with a master instance via a bus. The master instance is operative to switch the bus into a bus suspend state if no bus activity is present during a predetermined interval. In response to a bus suspend state, the slave instance makes a transition to a slave suspend state. The communication apparatus includes a monitor configured to monitor the bus activity and a transmitter configured to transmit a signal via the bus if the monitor does not recognize any bus activity during part of the predetermined interval and a transition of the slave instance to the slave suspend state is undesirable, wherein the signal is operative to prevent the master instance from switching the bus into the bus suspend state.

Abstract: Communication system including a host and a device. The host has an oscillator and the device has a USB-function core. The oscillator in the host is coupled to the USB-function core in the device.

Abstract: A communication apparatus for communication according to a master-slave communication protocol is formed as a slave instance communicating with a master instance via a bus. The master instance is operative to switch the bus into a bus suspend state if no bus activity is present during a predetermined interval. In response to a bus suspend state, the slave instance makes a transition to a slave suspend state. The communication apparatus includes a monitor configured to monitor the bus activity and a transmitter configured to transmit a signal via the bus if the monitor does not recognize any bus activity during part of the predetermined interval and a transition of the slave instance to the slave suspend state is undesirable, wherein the signal is operative to prevent the master instance from switching the bus into the bus suspend state.

Abstract: Apparatus for contactless data transmission according to a predetermined transmission protocol providing control information and payload for a data transmission, with a near field communicator and an interface connected to the near field communicator, the interface being operative to exchange, using a first protocol, data with the near field communicator for the contactless transmission. In this context, the first protocol provides a transmission of control information and payload, the payload of the first protocol including the control information and the payload of the predetermined protocol. The apparatus further includes a module coupled to the interface and being operative to exchange, using the payload of the first protocol, the control information and the payload of the predetermined transmission protocol for the data exchanged contactlessly by the near field communicator.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting a connection of a peripheral unit to a host system via a data transmission interface, wherein the host system includes at least one switching device which sets a connection between at least one data line of the data transmission interface and a prescribed potential in the host system.

Abstract: Communications system having a chip card and at least one chip card communications partner, the chip card having a module for initiating data interchange with the chip card communications partner, and a method for interchanging data between a chip card and a chip card communications partner, the chip card initiating data interchange.