Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1994-04-06
1996-08-20
Kim, Matthew M.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
395307, 364DIG1, 36424231, 3642423, 3642403, G06F 1328, G06F 1300, G06F 1340
Patent
active
055487866
ABSTRACT:
A DMA controller is provided for transferring data between source and destination devices over an I/O bus. The DMA control circuit includes a bus interface unit for providing a bus size information at the beginning of each consecutive bus cycle and a look ahead responsive to the bus size information for providing a bus size control signal. A DMA control circuit responsive to the bus size control signal controls the bus width during contiguous transfer cycles. By dynamically adjusting the DMA control circuit, back to back data reads and writes may occur with no wait states inserted for generating the terminal count information.
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Amini Nader
Boury Bechara F.
Brannon Sherwood
Concilio Ian A.
Hofmann Richard G.
Babayi Robert S.
Bragdon Reginald G.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kim Matthew M.
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