Lsi Logic Corporation

Lsi Corporation

Bradley Dean Besmer

Stephen B Johnson

Brian A Day

Christopher McCarty

Owen N Parry

Guy Kendall

Ming-jen Wang

Andrew Carl Brown

Jana Lynn Richards

A data-processing method and system generally comprises identifying a plurality of hardware resources associated with a data-processing apparatus, time-slicing the plurality of hardware resources. Thereafter the plurality of active hardware resources can be allocated among a plurality of active hardware resources associated with the data-processing apparatus, thereby allowing a limited number of hardware resources to service a larger number of physical devices associated with the data-processing apparatus. An appropriate hardware resource can be selected from among the plurality of active hardware resources utilizing one or more swapping algorithms.

Method and system for creating and utilizing virtual hardware resources

Methods and associated structures for bypassing virtual memory and memory mapping management features provided in a memory controller applied to simpler computing applications. In one aspect hereof, simpler, embedded computing applications may utilize standard memory controllers including cash management and memory component interfacing features but may bypass virtual memory management features within the same memory controller component. Rather, features and aspects hereof intercept memory accesses generated by the memory controller for address translation features and perform simpler address substitution to apply an appropriate translated address to the system bus.

Methods and structure for bypassing memory management mapping and translation features

An apparatus comprising a plurality of IO queues and a logic circuit. The plurality of IO queues each may be configured to receive a respective IO request and present the IO request in response to a trigger signal. The logic circuit may be configured to (a) (i) receive one or more of the IO requests and (ii) serially coalesce the IO requests in response to a respective device identification (ID) of the IO requests, and (iii) present one or more of the coalesced IO requests as one or more respective context queue requests in response to the trigger signal and (b) generate the trigger signal when a current queue count is equal to a maximum queue depth.

Method and/or apparatus to sort request commands for SCSI multi-command packets

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Bradley Dean Besmer