Method and system for facilitating byte ordering interfacing of

Details Method and system for facilitating byte ordering interfacing of Method and system for facilitating byte ordering interfacing of

1995-10-10

1998-10-06

Lall, Parshotam S.

395561, G06F 700

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ABSTRACT:
A method and data processing system for transferring data between the system and a memory system using more than one byte ordering convention by incorporating byte order information into instruction codes. The byte order information is coupled to a control unit along with other information characterizing the data transfer operation. In response to the byte order information and the data transfer operation information, the control unit generates a control signal that is coupled to a BPU. The control signal causes the BPU to rearrange the order of bytes in the data being transferred when the byte order information indicates a first byte ordering format. When the byte order information indicates a second byte ordering format, the BPU does not change the order of the bytes in the data being transferred.

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