Method and apparatus providing programmable decode modes for sec

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395308, 395287, 395847, 395856, 395882, G06F 1300

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ABSTRACT:
A PCI-to-PCI bridge is described having a processor configured for performing various routing operations based upon the addresses of transactions carried on interconnected PCI buses. The various routing modes operate on decoded PCI addresses and are described herein as "programmable decode modes." In one programmable decode mode, private address spaces facilitate communication between peer PCI devices without burdening the primary PCI bus or any upstream components such as a host-to-PCI bridge, a host bus and host microprocessors. In another programmable decode mode, subtractive routing operations are provided wherein a secondary PCI interface captures any transactions not claimed on the secondary PCI bus after a predetermined number of clock cycles. The transactions are routed to the primary PCI bus. Another programmable decode mode is "intelligent" bridging wherein conventional inverse positive decode operations are disabled for the entire primary address space of the secondary PCI bus. Only addresses within programmable reverse positive decode address spaces are captured by the secondary PCI interface and forwarded to the corresponding primary PCI bus. Intelligent bridging allows, among other functions, the interconnection of two peer primary PCI buses by a single PCI-to-PCI bridge. Such enables transactions between PCI devices of the peer PCI buses to be routed over the PCI-to-PCI bridge without requiring routing through a host bus.

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