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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. 29, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1996
Maria L Melo, Houston, TX (US);
Khaldoun Alzien, Houston, TX (US);
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A PCI repeater coupled between a primary bus and a secondary bus includes logic to allow downstream and upstream bursting across the repeater. The PCI repeater echoes transactions in either an upstream or downstream direction, and does not need any additional address decode logic. The buses are coupled to an arbiter so that only one bus master has control of the bus. During a burst operation, the PCI repeater causes the arbiter to cease providing grant signals to prospective bus grantees. The signal is removed only after the transaction has completed on both sides of the PCI repeater to ensure that the PCI repeater is ready for a next transaction.