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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jack Abily, Plaisir, FR;
Jean-Francedilla.ois Autechaud, Paris, FR;
Christophe Dionet, Ivry-sur-Seine, FR;
Assignee:
Bull, S.A., Louveciennes, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711165 ; 711-2 ; 711167 ; 711169 ;
Abstract
Electrical circuit (5) arranged to move data blocks from a source memory unit (8, 9, 12) to a target memory unit (9, 12, 8) by a data path (5, 6, 7), to send, in a given order, requests to read blocks in the source memory, to generate an end marker in the request to read the last block of the source memory, to receive the blocks read, in the form of response messages, in the order in which the requests were sent, and to send requests to write the received blocks, in the target memory, during receiving of response messages until receiving a message from the source memory with the end marker.