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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2003
Applicants:
Andrew W. Lueck, Plano, TX (US);
Kevin K. Main, Plano, TX (US);
Jeffrey H. Enoch, McKinney, TX (US);
Inventors:
Andrew W. Lueck, Plano, TX (US);
Kevin K. Main, Plano, TX (US);
Jeffrey H. Enoch, McKinney, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A PCI Express to PCI bridge enables upstream and downstream isochronous data transfer by modifying the PCI bus arbiter so that the PCI device on the PCI bus is treated as a virtual port for the bridge. Data from the PCI device is assigned via a port arbitration table to sufficient bandwidth so that the data from the PCI device can be transferred upstream isochronously. The bridge also handles downstream isochronous data transfer.