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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2001
Gurbir Singh, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
Robert J. Greiner, Beaverton, OR (US);
Stephen S. Pawlowski, Beaverton, OR (US);
David L. Hill, Cornelius, OR (US);
Donald D. Parker, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A bus agent that may be used in an enhanced highly pipelined bus architecture. In one embodiment, the bus agent includes a target ready interface, a set of response interfaces for a set of response signals, and a data bus busy interface, and a bus clock interface for a bus clock signal. The bus agent of this embodiment also includes bus controller logic to track a plurality of transactions comprising a transaction N- and a transaction N, the bus controller being capable of asserting the target ready signal for transaction N if the bus agent is asserting the data busy signal for the transaction N- and deasserts the data busy signal.