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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shinji Kunishige, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395308 ; 395309 ; 395281 ; 395848 ; 395842 ;
Abstract
A PCI-ISA bridge device includes a PCI interface for driving a target ready signal line when PCI-ISA bridge device is address-specified as a current target by a read cycle on a PCI bus, and a status register for setting status information indicating respective states of a plurality of DMA request signals inputted to DMA controller. Further the PCI interface circuit includes a wait control circuit for inserting a predetermined wait time period in the timing for driving the target ready signal line, when the transaction is a read cycle for reading the content of the status register.