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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2020
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;
Ki Young Kim, Icheon, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;
Abstract
A data processing apparatus includes a master device configured to transmit commands for destinations, a slave device including a plurality of command processing regions respectively corresponding to the destinations, and a controller configured to relay communication between the master device and the slave device. The controller assigns time stamp value to the commands as an initial value when the commands was received by the controller and increment the time stamp value every command arbitration cycle, selects a command having a largest time stamp value among the commands in a tournament manner by comparing commands having different destinations every command arbitration cycle, stores a command selection history of each comparison of commands, selects the command based on a command selection history corresponding to the compared commands when respective time stamp values of the compared commands are the same or substantially the same as each other.