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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2014
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Erik John Rivard, San Diego, CA (US);
Lih-Feng Tsaur, San Diego, CA (US);
Shawn Shiliang Ding, San Diego, CA (US);
Hsiao-Kai Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Shanshan Jiang, San Diego, CA (US);
Daochun Liu, San Diego, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A device implements multiple protocols that share overlapping resources. In some cases, a first operation, such as a scan, may have a resource conflict with a second operation associated with a different protocol. In some cases, determining grant normal priority level requests associated with the first operation over those at the normal priority level associated with the second operation may lead to operator-noticeable degradation in device performance. A protocol controller may request a selected portion of the first operation at a low priority level. Requesting the selected portion at the low priority level may allow the second operation to selectively override the portion of the first operation. The selective overriding of the first operation may allow for execution of the first and second operations without operator-noticeable performance degradation.