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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2018
Ambarella International Lp, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kumarasamy Palanisamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Ambarella International LP, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes an interface and a circuit. The interface may be connectable to (i) a plurality of counters and (ii) multiple pipelines. The circuit may be configured to (i) increment two or more given counters of the counters associated with a plurality of first data units in response to the first data units being available in a buffer, where two or more of the pipelines each (a) reads a plurality of current units from the first data units and (b) decrements a respective one of the given counters in response to each read of one of the current units, (ii) monitor the decrements of the given counters and (iii) block a second data unit from being copied into the buffer until all of the given counters indicate that the buffer has room to hold the second data unit.