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US Patent 7263571
Issued Date
August 28, 2007
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Disclosed are a system and method of forwarding bus transactions from a source device to a target device in multiple data bus environment. A bridge is coupled between a first data bus and a second data bus while a target device is coupled to the first data bus at a data bus address. A decoder may provide bus segment information to the bridge independently of a bus transaction on the second data bus initiated by a source device. The bridge may comprise logic to forward the bus transaction on the first data bus to the target device based upon the bus segment information.
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Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
Published
August 28, 2007
Application Number
11/418,600
Filed
May 5, 2006
US Classification
710/306   710/104
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G06F   13/36   (20060101)   G06F   13/00   (20060101)  
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/028,881, filed on Dec. 20, 2001 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,080,187 by inventor Richard P. Mackey, entitled "Bus Segment Decoder", and priority is claimed thereto.
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