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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2005
Kumar Ganapathy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ruban Kanapathippillai, Dublin, CA (US);
Saurin Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
George Moussa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Earle F. Philhower, Iii, Union City, CA (US);
Ruchir Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kumar Ganapathy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ruban Kanapathippillai, Dublin, CA (US);
Saurin Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
George Moussa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Earle F. Philhower, III, Union City, CA (US);
Ruchir Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A direct memory access (DMA) descriptor table to control DMA of information in a memory is disclosed. The DMA descriptor table includes one or more DMA descriptor lists stored in the memory. Each DMA descriptor lists may include one or more pointers and information regarding the type of data being directly memory accessed. The pointers may point to a starting address in the memory from which to directly memory access data, prior state information, or program code from and to the memory.