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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. 27, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard T Baker, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 24 ; 710 10 ; 710 26 ; 713-1 ;
Abstract
A method and system for autonomously operation a PCI-serial bus interface device (20) in an autonomous mode includes directing circuitry (370) for directing an autonomous boot mode select signal to the data transfer device. Instructions configure registers (36, 38) associated with the data transfer device for autonomous operation of a data transfer device. The directing circuit (370) associates with the data packet transfer device for transferring data to at least one program control list (456) for operating said data packet transfer device in an autonomous mode.