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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rajesh Bhaskar, Kaggadasapura, IN;
Enrico Carrieri, Placerville, CA (US);
Kenneth Foust, Beaverton, OR (US);
Janusz Jurski, Beaverton, OR (US);
Myron Loewen, Berthoud, CO (US);
Matthew A. Schnoor, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Amit Kumar Srivastava, Folsom, CA (US);
George Vergis, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a peer-to-peer (P2P) control circuit to issue a P2P communication request to a bus master of a multi-drop interconnect to request authorization to send a P2P transaction to at least one slave device coupled to the multi-drop interconnect; a transmitter to transmit the P2P transaction to the at least one slave device when the bus master grants the authorization for the P2P transaction; and another transmitter to output the clock signal to the multi-drop interconnect during the P2P transaction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.