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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sagi Lahav, Kiryat Bialik, IL;
Lital Levy-Rubin, Tel Aviv, IL;
Gaurav Garg, San Jose, CA (US);
Gerard R. Williams, III, Los Altos, CA (US);
Samer Nassar, Nazareth, IL;
Per H. Hammarlund, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Harshavardhan Kaushikkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivasa Rangan Sridharan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeff Gonion, Campbell, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed relating to an I/O agent circuit. The I/O agent circuit may include a transaction pipeline and a pool of counters. The I/O agent circuit may initialize a first counter included in the pool of counters with an initial counter value. The I/O agent circuit may assign the first counter to a specific transaction type. The I/O agent circuit may increment the first counter as a part of allocating a transaction of a transaction type included in a set of transaction types different than the specific transaction type. Based on receiving a transaction request to process a first transaction of the specific transaction type, the I/O agent circuit may bind the first transaction to the first counter. The I/O agent circuit may issue the first transaction to the transaction pipeline based on a counter value stored by the first counter matching the initial counter value.