摘要:
A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources are included to allow efficient access/ownership of shared data. Loose transaction ordering provided for while maintaining corresponding transaction priority to memory locations to ensure data integrity and efficient memory access. Active power sub-states and setting thereof is included to allow for more efficient power management. And, caching of device local memory in a host address space, as well as caching of system memory in a device local memory address space is provided for to improve bandwidth and latency for memory accesses.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for implementing virtual wire signaling is described. It includes an apparatus including a first component, a bus coupled to the first component, the bus to transmit packets of data, and a second component coupled to the bus, messages passed between the first component and the second component through packets transmitted on the bus.
摘要:
A memory controller for a computer system includes a first memory address bus and a second memory, address bus. The memory controller further includes circuitry that toggles one of the first and second memory address buses at a time. Because only one memory address bus is toggled at once, the first and second memory address buses can share power and ground pins, thereby reducing the number of power and ground pins on the memory controller.
摘要:
A computer system including amongst its components a host bus coupled to a processor, an intermediate (PCI) bus, an expansion (ISA or EISA) bus, a host bridge coupled between the host and intermediate busses, and an expansion bridge coupled between the intermediate and expansion busses, is disclosed. The host bridge incorporates data buffer management circuitry which examines a write request presented to the host bridge to determine whether the write request is to a device not coupled to the expansion bus. If the write request is to a device not coupled to the expansion bridge, the buffer management allows the write buffer to accept write data associated within the write request. If not, the buffer management circuitry prevents the write buffer from accepting the write data associated with the write request. The data buffer management circuitry may be configured to determine specifically whether the write request is to a graphics frame buffer.
摘要:
A personal computer (PC) card insertion method and apparatus uses a subset of connector ground terminals and pins, located at either end of the connector, for detecting the onset of a card insertion. The host PC card slot connector has pull-up resistors for keeping the subset of ground terminals at a high logic level (V.sub.CC). Also, the subset of pins are made longer than the signal pins so that when an insertion of a PC card begins, the grounding of one or more of the subset of pins indicates that a PC card insertion has begun, allowing the host system to take the necessary precautions to ensure an orderly acceptance of the card without any undesirable system affects that might otherwise result. Also, a logic network for using the subset of connector terminals as additional grounding connections is provided upon completion of the insertion.
摘要:
Systems and methods for long-term non-volatile non-rotating optical storage of digital information rely on storage elements that include optical storage media, an access subsystem configured to access bits of information from one of the storage elements, and a support structure configured to support multiple storage elements. A laser used to retrieve and/or record bits of digital information may be moved along two orthogonal dimensions while the storage element is non-rotating.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources are included to allow efficient access/ownership of shared data. Loose transaction ordering provided for while maintaining corresponding transaction priority to memory locations to ensure data integrity and efficient memory access. Active power sub-states and setting thereof is included to allow for more efficient power management. And, caching of device local memory in a host address space, as well as caching of system memory in a device local memory address space is provided for to improve bandwidth and latency for memory accesses.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources are included to allow efficient access/ownership of shared data. Loose transaction ordering provided for while maintaining corresponding transaction priority to memory locations to ensure data integrity and efficient memory access. Active power sub-states and setting thereof is included to allow for more efficient power management. And, caching of device local memory in a host address space, as well as caching of system memory in a device local memory address space is provided for to improve bandwidth and latency for memory accesses.