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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerald Donald Boldt, Longmont, CO (US);
Stephen Dale Hanna, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Eric Vogelsberg, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711112 ; 364D / ; 711163 ; 395842 ;
Abstract
Chaining or cascading two or more DMA devices to perform DMA transfers across common buses. DMA devices are modified to act as a bus slave relative to another DMA bus master device so that information can be transferred from one bus to another across a third bus common to the DMA devices. The slave DMA can cause the master DMA to stop sending data to limit the bandwidth requirements of the common bus.