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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2004
Applicants:
Michael Fairman, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Timothy Allen, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Fairman, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Timothy Allen, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Techniques and mechanisms provide management of interrupt requests in a system, such as a programmable chip system. The system may include multiple master components and slave components. Techniques and mechanisms are described for assigning interrupts to slave components on a per master component basis. When a slave component initiates an interrupt request, a master component associated with the request will handle the interrupt without disrupting operation of other master components in the system.