Host adapter system including an integrated PCI buffer controlle

Details Host adapter system including an integrated PCI buffer controlle Host adapter system including an integrated PCI buffer controlle

1996-03-15

1999-03-09

An, Meng-Ai T.

395282, 395309, 395842, G06F 1300

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058812504

ABSTRACT:
A host adapter system includes a secondary computer bus, a plurality of I/O buses, and a plurality of host adapter circuits. Each host adapter circuit is connected to the secondary computer bus and to one I/O bus in the plurality of I/O buses. An integrated buffer controller and data function circuit is connected to the secondary computer bus and an external buffer memory. The external buffer memory appears to the plurality of host adapter circuits as a host computer buffer memory. The integrated buffer controller and data function circuit includes a data function circuit that is controlled by addresses supplied to the circuit. The integrated buffer controller and data function circuit has a bus interface that is used to connect the circuit to the secondary computer bus. A data channel in the integrated buffer controller and data function circuit connects the bus interface to a buffer memory controller. The buffer memory controller has a buffer memory port that is connected to the external buffer memory. The integrated buffer controller and data function circuit includes a slave data channel and a master data channel.

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