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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2005
Siamack Nemazie, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Shiang-jyh Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Young-ta Wu, Fremont, CA (US);
Andrew Hyonil Chong, San Jose, CA (US);
Siamack Nemazie, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Shiang-Jyh Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Young-Ta Wu, Fremont, CA (US);
Andrew Hyonil Chong, San Jose, CA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention is disclosed to include a fiber channel target device for receiving information in the form of frames and including a controller device coupled to a microprocessor for processing the frames received from the host, at least one receive buffer for storing the frames and having a buffer size, the controller device issuing credit to the host for receipt of further frames in a manner wherein only one microprocessor is needed to process the frames while maintaining a buffer size that is as small as the number of first type of frames that can be received by the fiber channel target device from the host.