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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2004
Ashish V. Choubal, Austin, TX (US);
Madhu R. Gumma, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher T. Foulds, Austin, TX (US);
Mohannad M. Noah, Austin, TX (US);
Ashish V. Choubal, Austin, TX (US);
Madhu R. Gumma, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher T. Foulds, Austin, TX (US);
Mohannad M. Noah, Austin, TX (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and program for managing memory requests for logic blocks or clients of a device. In one embodiment, busses are separated by the type of data to be carried by the busses. In another aspect, data transfers are decoupled from the memory requests which initiate the data transfers. In another aspect, clients competing for busses are arbitrated and selected memory requests may be provided programmable higher priority than other memory operations of a similar type.