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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:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2002
Applicants:
Sheng-chung Wu, Taipei Hsien, TW;
You-ming Chiu, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Inventors:
Sheng-Chung Wu, Taipei Hsien, TW;
You-Ming Chiu, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Assignee:
VIA Technologies, Inc., Taipei Hsien, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F012/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A control chip having a multiple-layer defer queue therein and a method of operating the control chip. The control chip is coupled to a CPU bus and a PCI bus. The control chip comprises of a PC request queue, a multiple-layer defer queue, a PCI access queue and a PCI controller. The multiple-layer defer queue facilitates the processing of a multiple of concurrent CPU requests that belong to a first request type. The multiple-layer defer queue supports retry and defer transactions, thereby reducing data transmission between the CPU and the control chip.