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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2005
Parag Maharana, Fremont, CA (US);
Basavaraj Hallyal, Fremont, CA (US);
Senthil Murugan Thangaraj, Fremont, CA (US);
Gurpreet Singh Anand, Fremont, CA (US);
Parag Maharana, Fremont, CA (US);
Basavaraj Hallyal, Fremont, CA (US);
Senthil Murugan Thangaraj, Fremont, CA (US);
Gurpreet Singh Anand, Fremont, CA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for computer signal processing data and command transfer over an interface and more particularly to a communication between peripheral firmware and a host processor or Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) on a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. In one embodiment, a device and method for reducing the load on the PCI Bus is described. In yet another embodiment, a device and method is described for constructing a variable length command block comprising message frames and aligning all message frames for a particular command block that are contiguous in memory.