Method and apparatus for performing an atomic semaphore...

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2004-10-22

2009-10-27

Thai, Tuan V (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Control technique

C711S154000, C710S200000

Reexamination Certificate

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07610463

ABSTRACT:
A processing system and method of communicating within the processing system is disclosed. The processing system may include a bus; a memory region coupled to the bus; and a plurality of processing components having access to the memory region over the bus, each of the processing components being configured to perform a semaphore operation to gain access to the memory region by simultaneously requesting a read operation and a write operation to a semaphore location over the bus.

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