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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1999
Toshiyuki Tanaka, Suwa, JP;
Takao Ogawa, Suwa, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The objective is to provide a data transfer control device and electronic equipment that are capable of reducing processing overheads, thus enabling high-speed data transfer within a compact hardware configuration. A packet diagnosis circuit diagnoses self-ID packets sent from many nodes, and detects the node that ought to become the isochronous resource manager (IRM) in accordance with IEEE 1394. The ID of that node is held in an IRM ID register. Firmware can discern the ID of the IRM by reading this register. If C and L bits of the self-ID packet of a node are both 1, the ID of that node overwrites the contents of the IRM ID register. Whether or not the system is within a self-ID period is detected and any packet that is sent in within that self-ID period is assumed to be a self-ID packet. When the IRM ID matches the ID of the self-node, information indicating that the self-node is the IRM is stored in a WIRM register, GPID and ESID signals are used together to determine the match between the IRM ID and the self-node ID.