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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2000
Robert Streitenberger, Hyogo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kawai, Hyogo, JP;
Yoshitsugu Inoue, Hyogo, JP;
Junko Kobara, Hyogo, JP;
Renesas Technology Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A bridge includes a first port connected to a Primary bus, and second ports respectively connected to second buses. The first port includes a PCI master, a PCI slave and an AGP master. Each of the second ports includes a PCI master, a PCI target and an AGP Target. The bridge further includes a plurality of first-in-first-out memories forming asynchronous data paths between the first port and the second ports and arbitrators for arbitrating a contention between the transactions on the data paths formed by the first-in-first-out memories based on the protocols related to the transactions.