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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Harry Nguyen, Campbell, CA (US);
Christopher D. Finan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Philippe Molson, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/28 (2013.01); G06F 9/30192 (2013.01); G06F 12/1081 (2013.01); G06F 2213/2802 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment relates to an integrated circuit with a modular direct memory access system. A read data mover receives data obtained from a source address, and a write data mover for sends the data to a destination address. A descriptor controller provides the source address to the read data mover and the destination address to the write data mover. Another embodiment relates to a method of providing direct memory access. Another embodiment relates to a system which provides direct memory access. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.