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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1996
Sherman Lee, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Ramkrishna Vepa, Fremont, CA (US);
Robert Alan Williams, Cupertino, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for facilitates a fast transmission of packet information into the buffers without unnecessary delays, thereby increasing overall system performance. The method and system comprises sending a packet of information located in a local buffer to a media, generating an interrupt signal indicating a completed transfer of the packet to the media and availability of the local buffer for receiving a next packet, and sending the next packet of information from a queue to the local buffer in response to the interrupt signal, wherein the generation of the interrupt signal after each data packet is transmitted to the media does not affect the overall operation of the processing system.