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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
May. 23, 2003
Mark F. Heppenstall, Fremont, CA (US);
Micheal Moretti, Saratoga, CA (US);
Thomas Wu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Mark F. Heppenstall, Fremont, CA (US);
Micheal Moretti, Saratoga, CA (US);
Thomas Wu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transferring data across a network protocol bridge is disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-processing engine configuration is used wherein processing engines are tasked with carrying out specific data transfer operations. In another embodiment, this multi-processing engine configuration is implemented in a protocol bridge in which data is being transferred between Fibre Channel and a network bus that is coupled to a host system. In one embodiment, the network bus is a PCI/PCI-X bus.