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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hideaki Io, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuichi Inomata, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Fukushima, Machida, JP;
Shigekazu Hayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/336 ; G06F 1/328 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/336 ; G06F 1/328 ;
Abstract
An entertainment apparatus comprising a peripheral device and a controller for controlling the peripheral device. The peripheral device and the controller are connected each other by an address bus and a data bus. The peripheral device which receives a DMA acknowledge signal from the controller carries out 32-bit DMA transfer using lower 16 bits of the address bus and the data bus, during assertion of the DMA acknowledge signal.