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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2004
Chin-wei Kate Liang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Kevin Pond, Legal Representative, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Chin-Wei Kate Liang, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Kevin Pond, legal representative, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the invention relates to a network interface system for interfacing a host system with a network. The network interface system includes a bus interface system, a media access control system, a memory system, and a security system. The media access control system comprises one or more local buffers and is adapted to read a second data frame from the memory system while a first data frame is being transmitted to the network. The invention is particularly useful when the memory system has a single memory sharing several clients. When a memory has several clients, there can be instances where a read of the memory by the media access control system is delayed because the memory is busy with a request from another client. The invention helps ensure that such delays do not result in transmission errors and reduces the effect of such delays on overall transmission speed.