Oracle America, Inc.

Ian Jones

Frank C Chiu

Anup Pradhan

Iain Craig Robertson

A system and method of deterministically transferring data across a first clock domain to a second clock domain includes receiving a resynchronize command, initiating a corresponding one of a plurality of read delays in each one of a second plurality of devices in the second clock domain, counting down the plurality of read delays to zero, receiving a training pattern after the plurality of read delays count down to zero in each one of the second plurality of devices, recovering a clock data in each of the second plurality of devices, receiving a synch byte by each of the second plurality of devices, selecting one of a plurality of serial lanes as a reference lane, wherein the plurality of serial lanes couple the first clock domain to the second clock domain, initiating a write pointer, writing n bytes of serial data to a buffer and converting the n bytes of data from serial data to parallel data in a serial to parallel converter such that the serial n byte data in the buffer are aligned in time.

System and method to facilitate deterministic testing of data transfers between independent clock domains on a chip

A system and method of deterministically transferring data from a first clock domain to a second clock domain includes writing data to a buffer, communicating a read status from the first clock domain to the second clock domain and reading data from the buffer into the second clock domain at a clock rate of the second domain. The buffer is accessible by both one or more devices in each of the first clock domain and the second clock domain and the read status is communicated from the first clock domain to the second clock domain when the second clock domain enables the read status to be communicated from the first clock domain to the second clock domain.

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