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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2000
Balaji Parthasarathy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Dominic J. Gasbarro, Forest Grove, OR (US);
Tom E. Burton, Beaverton, OR (US);
Brian M. Leitner, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Other;
Abstract
A host system is provided with one or more host-fabric adapters installed therein for connecting to a switched fabric of a data network. The host-fabric adapter comprises a micro-controller subsystem configured to establish connections and support data transfers via the switched fabric, and a serial interface which provides an interface with the switched fabric. The micro-controller subsystem includes a Micro-Engine (ME) which executes a ME instruction to send source and destination addresses during a control cycle, and interface logic blocks which supply addressed data from designated sources to the Micro-Engine (ME) at the same time for execution of the ME instruction during a data cycle subsequent to the control cycle.