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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2011
Applicants:
Kun Xu, Austin, TX (US);
Tommi M. Jokinen, Austin, TX (US);
David B. Kramer, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for controlling bandwidth in a direct memory access (DMA) unit of a computer processing system, the method comprising: assigning a DMA job to a selected DMA engine; starting a source timer; and issuing a request to read a next section of data for the DMA job. If a sufficient amount of the data was not obtained, allowing the DMA engine to wait until the source timer reaches a specified value before continuing to read additional data for the DMA job.