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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 03, 2011
Applicants:

Raymond Lam, Vancouver, CA;

Ivy Chow, Vancouver, CA;

Inventors:

Raymond Lam, Vancouver, CA;

Ivy Chow, Vancouver, CA;

Assignee:

PMC-Sierra US, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A controller comprising a transport layer, an internal memory, and a link list manager block. The internal memory stores pending instruction entries. The link list manager block is configured to read instructions stored in an external memory, update an active vector, the active vector for storing indications of instructions from the external memory; update the pending instruction entries in the internal memory; and update the instructions stored in the external memory. The link list manager block configured to dispatch a instruction from the pending instruction entries in the internal memory to the transport layer.


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