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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1997
David S Rosenthal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Curtis Priem, Fremont, CA (US);
NVidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling the routing of input/output operations including providing a series of commands expressing connections between sources of data, processing elements, and destinations for data to carry out an input/output operation; compiling a data structure for the input/output operation from the series of commands, the data structure including context defining connections between each of the sources of data, processing elements, and destinations for data; and using the data structure to set connecting context to make connection expressed between each of the sources of data, processing elements, and destinations for data whenever the input/output operation is to be accomplished.