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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2001
Sushma Shrikant Trivedi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joseph P. Bratt, San Jose, CA (US);
Jack Benkual, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vaughn Todd Arnold, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Yutaka Takahashi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Steven Todd Weybrew, Portland, OR (US);
Derek Fujio Iwamoto, San Jose, CA (US);
David Ligon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
At least one chip of a chipset in a computer system having at least one host processor and a host memory are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary chip includes an interconnect, a memory interface coupled to the interconnect, the memory interface providing access to the host memory and controlling memory refresh and memory access, a host interface coupled to the interconnect, the host interface providing access to the host processor, and a programmable media processor coupled to the interconnect, the media processor accessing the host through the host interface and the media processor accessing the host memory through the memory interface, wherein the media processor processes time based media.