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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2008
Richard J. Fagerlund, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
David B. Isaksen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Philip R. Sanfilippo, San Jose, CA (US);
Boris G. Tankhilevich, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Richard J. Fagerlund, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
David B. Isaksen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Philip R. Sanfilippo, San Jose, CA (US);
Boris G. Tankhilevich, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Wideband Semiconductors, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An address locked loop (ALL) apparatus for address recycling is provided. The apparatus comprises a block of memory further comprising a plurality of buffers configured to store a plurality of incoming packets, an address stack configured for storing of a plurality of free addresses, an address locked loop (ALL) control block configured to provide an arbitrated interface with the address stack for filling address requests by a local process and for returning free addresses from the local process to the address stack, and a stack address counter configured to maintain count of the available free addresses remaining on the address stack.