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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2002
Applicants:
Henry Drescher, Dresden, DE;
Frank Barth, Radebeul, DE;
Inventors:
Henry Drescher, Dresden, DE;
Frank Barth, Radebeul, DE;
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F003/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A combined ATA and SATA controller is provided that comprises a control unit for controlling data transfer to and/or from an ATA compliant parallel storage device and a control unit for controlling data transfer to and/or from an SATA compliant serial storage device. The controller can concurrently perform the data transfer to and/or from the parallel and serial devices. By reusing a significant amount of controller hardware, the combined controller can be realized in a cost effective manner.