摘要:
A method is provided to reduce strapping devices in a computer system having at least one configurable device, which includes the following steps. A configuration value stored in a non-volatile memory is first provided. During power-up and reset of the computer system, a processor reset signal and a bus reset signal of a high-speed peripheral bus are both asserted, wherein the high-speed peripheral bus is included in the computer system. When an operation clock of the high-speed peripheral bus reaches its working voltage and frequency, the configuration value is fetched from the non-volatile memory. The fetching step is repeated until a most significant bit (MSB) of a fetched configuration value changes from a first state to a second state. Subsequently, the configuration value fetched from the non-volatile memory is asserted to the at least one configurable device to configure the configurable device, and then the processor reset signal is deasserted, and the at least one configurable device is thereby completely configured.
摘要:
A barrier control scheme controls the order dependency of items in a multiple FIFO queue structure. The barrier control scheme includes a cycle ID generator, a barrier bit/barrier ID generator and a cycle ID and barrier ID comparator. Each incoming item to the FIFOs is assigned a cycle ID. If an incoming item of a first FIFO has order dependency on items of a second FIFO, a barrier bit is set and a barrier ID is determined and generated by the barrier bit/barrier ID generator. The barrier bit and barrier ID are inserted in the first FIFO along with other fields of the incoming item. When an item is to be consumed, the cycle ID and barrier ID comparator compares its barrier ID and the cycle IDs of items in the second FIFO. The item to be consumed is blocked until all items on which the item is dependent are consumed in the second FIFO.