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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1995
Brian Keith Odom, Travis County, TX (US);
Robert Canik, Cedar Park, TX (US);
National Instruments Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for rapidly transferring large amounts of small-sized data to non-sequential addresses in an instumentation system. According to a preferred embodiment, a host computer includes a plurality of test vectors stored in memory which control the operation of attached instruments. The host processor generates a block of address/data pairs in response to the test vectors, with each pair containing data and a destination address. This block is stored in memory and the address of the block is provided to a random write engine. The random write engine then distributes the data to the respective instruments at the proper addresses with minimal processor invention. Therefore, large amounts of small-sized data may be rapidly transferred to non-sequential addresses without burdening the processor.