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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ming-Hao Liao, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Hung-Ta Pai, Taichung-Hsien, TW;
Assignee:
XGI Technology Inc., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ; G06F 1/318 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ; G06F 1/318 ;
Abstract
In a method for adaptive arbitration of requests for accessing a memory unit in a multi-stage pipeline engine that includes a plurality of request queues corresponding to the stages of the pipeline engine, each of the request queues is assigned to one of a high-priority group and a low-priority group in accordance with an operating state of the memory unit. The request queues in the high-priority group are then processed prior to the request queues in the low-priority group.