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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2001
Kok Tjoan Lie, South Hurstville, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is method and apparatus ( ) for improving the performance of a pipeline system in which a FIFO ( ) is incorporated in the pipeline between an upstream processing module ( ) and a downstream processing module ( ), each of the modules ( ) having access to a common external memory ( ), this being typical in many ASIC arrangements. The method commences with detecting when the FIFO ( ) is substantially full and transferring commands from the upstream module ( ) to the external memory ( ). Commands received by the downstream module ( ) from each of the FIFO ( ) and the external memory ( ) are interpreted to determine a source of following ones of the commands.
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