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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1997
Peter Bloch, Portland, OR (US);
Leonard W Cross, Portland, OR (US);
Ali S Oztaskin, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and device is provided for controlling access to a resource by a bus master over a bus coupling the bus master to the resource. The resource includes an intelligent component that controls the operation of the resource. A series of packets is transmitted over the bus between the bus master and the resource, at a transmission speed controlled by the bus master. A request/response logic in the resource controllably throttles transmissions of the packets at the resource, at specified time intervals. Each of the time intervals is set at a time period to assure sufficient time for the intelligent component to complete processing tasks contained in the packets.