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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2007
Steve Juan, Fremont, CA (US);
Chi-lie Wang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ming-shiung Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Steve Juan, Fremont, CA (US);
Chi-Lie Wang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ming-Shiung Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A serial buffer having a parser and multiple parallel processing paths is provided. The parser receives incoming packets, determines the type of each packet, and then routes each packet to a processing path that corresponds with the determined packet type. Packet types may include blocking priority packets (which implement bus slave operations), non-blocking priority packets (which access on-chip resources of the serial buffer) and data packets (which implement bus master operations). Because the different packet types are processed on parallel processing paths, the processing of one packet type does not interfere with the processing of other packet types. As a result, blocking conditions within the serial buffer are minimized.