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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1998
Herman Lee Blackmon, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert Allen Drehmel, Goodhue, MN (US);
Lyle Edwin Grosbach, Rochester, MN (US);
Kent Harold Haselhorst, Byron, MN (US);
David John Krolak, Dodge Center, MN (US);
James Anthony Marcella, Rochester, MN (US);
Peder James Paulson, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A shared bus non-sequential data ordering method and apparatus are provided. A maximum bus width value and a minimum transfer value are identified. A minimum number of sub-transfers is identified responsive to the identified maximum bus width value and the minimum transfer value. A bus unit having a maximum number of chips to receive and/or send data receives data in a predefined order during multiple sub-transfers. During each data sub-transfer, a corresponding predefined word is transferred to each chip of the bus unit.