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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
George Hayek, Cameron Park, CA (US);
Brian Langendorf, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Aniruddha Kundu, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Gary Solomon, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Peter D. MacWilliams, Aloha, OR (US);
James M. Dodd, Citrus Heights, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A computer system is disclosed with a host bridge that arbitrates access to a system resource from a CPU via a host bus and from a set of bus agents via a peripheral bus. A separate set of priority classes are provided to the CPU and to the bus agents and programmable timers are included to tune system resource allocation between the host and processor busses.