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7600069 |
Multi-interface conversion device
A multi-interface conversion device includes a USB-to-IDE interface bridging unit, an IDE-to-SATA interface bridging unit, an IDE switching unit, and a switching logic unit. The USB-to-IDE...
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7574550 |
Guaranteed isochronous services method and apparatus in bridged LAN
Provided are a guaranteed isochronous services method and apparatus in bridged LAN. Isochronous streams are transmitted through bridges to a plurality of listener stations in a distributed network,...
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7562176 |
Apparatus and methods for clustering multiple independent PCI express hierarchies
Apparatus, systems and methods for clustering multiple PCI Express hierarchies to enable access of components in different hierarchies. Each PCI Express hierarchy includes a root device as well as...
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7558888 |
Enhanced access to hidden data storage
An apparatus for executing user commands in digital equipment operating in a USB mass storage (UMS) mode is configured in such a manner that a USB connecting unit transmits and receives commands...
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7548999 |
Chained hybrid input/output memory management unit
In one embodiment, an input/output (I/O) node comprises an I/O memory management unit (IOMMU) configured to translate memory requests. The I/O node is configured to couple to an interconnect and to...
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7532637 |
Synchronous controller
A synchronous controller is formed with a cycle master module and one or more control modules doubly connected through a synchronous bus and an event bus. The event bus is used for transmitting...
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7529877 |
Apparatus and methods for simplified SSP link layer processing
Apparatus and associated methods for a simplified Serial SCSI Protocol (“SSP”) link layer within a SAS device. Features and aspects hereof provide a simplified SSP link layer processor to...
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7519756 |
Method and apparatus for controlling connections of PC cards and a passive-card-adapting card used for connecting one of the PC cards to the apparatus
A PC card control apparatus includes a PC card connector, a card detector and an interconnection switching circuit. The PC card connector is configured to provide connections for connecting one of...
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7516336 |
System and method for power reduction by sequestering at least one device or partition in a platform from operating system access
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to managing power utilization in partitioned systems. In at least one embodiment, the present invention is intended to...
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7484031 |
Bus connection device
A bus connection device, in the form of a hardware dongle, can be connected to a first electronic device, in the form of a USB peripheral device, and a second electronic device can be connected...
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7444445 |
Selectively adjusting signal compensation parameters and data rate for transmission of data through a smart cable
A data storage domain is provided to determine a set of signal conditioning parameters for data being transmitted over smart cables in a data storage domain between an SAS switch and SAS expanders...
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7443844 |
Switched fabric mezzanine storage module
A switched fabric mezzanine storage module ( 560 ) includes a storage module ( 562 ) and a switched fabric connector ( 563 ) coupled to the storage module. The storage module is coupled to directly...
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7440450 |
Payload module having a switched fabric enabled mezzanine card
A multi-service platform system, includes a backplane ( 104 ), a switched fabric ( 106 ) on the backplane, and at least one of a VMEbus network and a PCI network coincident with the switched fabric...
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7412553 |
Enhanced protocol conversion system capable of providing offloaded protocol instruction processing
Systems are provided for the offloading of protocol control and conversion information within microprocessor-based systems. A converter controller comprises a first interface and protocol, as well...
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7406549 |
Support for non-standard device containing operating system data
According to an embodiment of the invention, a method and apparatus for support of a non-standard device containing operating system data are described. According to one embodiment, a circuit...
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7404022 |
Method and system for transmission and control of data stored in a USB master to and for utilization by a USB slave
The present invention concerns a method and a system for data transmission and control based on Universal Serial Bus (USB). The system comprises a USB Master device and a USB Slave device. The USB...
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7366872 |
Method for addressing configuration registers by scanning for a structure in configuration space and adding a known offset
A configuration memory space is scanned to locate an identification register whose value matches a predetermined value. The identification register identifies the location of a structure within the...
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7334072 |
System, method and apparatus for extending distances between wired or wireless USB devices and a USB host
A wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB) device enumerates one or more real or virtual hubs that support transmission of USB data over a wireless network. The number of virtual hubs presented to a USB...
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7334030 |
Method and apparatus for the addition and removal of nodes from a common interconnect
An electronic system interconnect. The interconnect comprises a first node and a second node coupled to the first node. The interconnect is initially configured to include the first and second...
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7330925 |
Transaction flow control mechanism for a bus bridge
A transaction flow control mechanism is disclosed for a bus bridge in a high speed computer system with a high speed interface for a graphics processor. A preferred embodiment provides a flow...
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7320043 |
Split computer architecture to separate user and processor while retaining original user interface
A network interface is described in which a single computer bus is split over a long distance into two or more inter-communicating buses. On one bus, processing and applications are provided and on...
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7310583 |
System and method of measurement and processing of electrical variables
A system and method of measurement and processing of physical variables, and in particular electrical variables, comprising: a multimeter to measure multiple electrical variables, similar to any...
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7284081 |
Method and system for routing data between USB ports
Aspects for high speed USB data routing are presented. The aspects include routing a data stream to and from USB I/O ports serially, and maintaining a frequency of the data stream during the...
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7277975 |
Methods and apparatuses for decoupling a request from one or more solicited responses
Embodiments of apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for communicating information between functional blocks of a system across a communication fabric. Translation logic couples to the...
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7275125 |
Pipeline bit handling circuit and method for a bus bridge
A circuit and method to provide pipeline bit handling across a bus bridge between two different buses. In a preferred embodiment, the pipeline bit handling circuit provides rule enforcement for a...
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7269681 |
Arrangement for receiving and transmitting PCI-X data according to selected data modes
An integrated device (e.g., an integrated PCI bridge device) buffers received PCI bus strobe signals and distributes strobe signals for PCI receive data relative to the PCI data lines, enabling all...
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7269680 |
System enabling device communication in an expanded computing device
A bridge accessible by a host processor can expand access over a first bus to a second bus. The first bus and the second bus are each adapted to separately connect to respective ones of a plurality...
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7263570 |
Method of providing an interface to a plurality of peripheral devices using bus adapter chips
A method of electrically coupling a central processing unit (CPU) of a network server to a plurality of network interface modules. The method comprises providing each of the plurality of network...
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7259584 |
Methods and structure for selective impedance control of bus driver circuits
Methods and apparatus for selectively allowing and disallowing changes to an impedance control signal applied to bus driver circuits coupling a device or system to a common, shared bus where...
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7237050 |
Multi-channel serial advanced technology attachment control system and control card thereof
A multi-channel serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) control system and control card thereof includes a first SATA control module, a first access-grant arbitration unit, a second SATA...
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7234017 |
Computer system architecture for a processor connected to a high speed bus transceiver
A high speed computer processor system has a high speed interface for a graphics processor. A preferred embodiment combines a PowerPC microprocessor called the Giga-Processor Ultralite (GPUL) 110...
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7162566 |
USB-based host-to-host networking method
The present invention relates to a USB-based host-to-host networking method capable of transferring information between two hosts. Devices for the method comprise: a register, a pair of FIFO...
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7155554 |
Methods and apparatuses for generating a single request for block transactions over a communication fabric
Embodiments of apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for communicating information between functional blocks of a system across a communications fabric. A first functional block...
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7149848 |
Computer system cache controller and methods of operation of a cache controller
In at least some embodiments, a computer system comprises a central processing unit (“CPU”), a bridge device coupled to a main memory, and a cache controller coupled between the bridge device...
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7136955 |
Expansion adapter supporting both PCI and AGP device functions
An expansion adapter is used to communicate both PCI and AGP devices to the north bridge chip of a computer. The expansion adapter includes a first AGP bus control module communicable with the...
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7133958 |
Multiple personality I/O bus
To efficiently personalize multiple bus interfaces, an input/output (I/O) integrated circuit (IC) is provided. This I/O IC can include two local bus control blocks, wherein each local bus control...
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7120725 |
Method of communicating a VMEbus signal over IP packet network
A method of communicating a VMEbus transfer ( 235 ) from an initiator VMEbus domain ( 202 ) over an IP packet network ( 210 ) to a responder VMEbus domain ( 204 ) can include the initiator VMEbus...
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7117289 |
Claiming cycles on a processor bus in a system having a PCI to PCI bridge north of a memory controller
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising determining information about an input/output device located north of the memory controller; and controlling a response of the memory...
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7110831 |
Communication control method, communication system, print control apparatus, printing apparatus, host apparatus, peripheral apparatus, and storage medium
A communication system for issuing commands from an initiator to a target, thereby allowing the target to write or read out data into/from a memory area which the initiator has and exchanging the...
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7107384 |
Dynamic PCI-bus pre-fetch with separate counters for commands of commands of different data-transfer lengths
A Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bridge between two buses prefetches read data into a cache. The number of cache lines to prefetch is predicted by a prefetch counter. One prefetch counter...
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7103695 |
System and method for scaling a bus based on a location of a device on the bus
A system and method for scaling a bus based on a location of a device on the bus are disclosed. An information handling system includes a host bridge interfaced between a local bus and a peripheral...
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7100066 |
Clock distribution device and method in compact PCI based multi-processing system
Disclosed is a clock distribution device and method in a compact PCI system based multi-processing system. A compact PCI based multi-processing system preferably includes processing signals upon...
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7099986 |
High speed peripheral interconnect apparatus, method and system
A multiple use core logic chip set is provided in a computer system that may be configured either as a bridge between an accelerated graphics port (“AGP”) bus and host and memory buses, as a...
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7096306 |
Distributed system with cross-connect interconnect transaction aliasing
An aliasing technique allows transparently connecting multiple interconnects across a shared cross-connect interconnect, allowing devices on one interconnect to communicate with devices on another...
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7080183 |
Reprogrammable apparatus supporting the processing of a digital signal stream and method
An architecture is provided that includes a reconfigurable bridge for routing data among functional units. Register transfer units effect the routing of data among registers that are associated...
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7069476 |
Method and apparatus to release a serial bus from a suspended state
A suspended or stuck condition of a serial bus controller is released by applying an artificial clock signal to the stuck bus controller in place of the normally applied clock signal. The...
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7062594 |
Root complex connection system
A data processing system includes first and second data processing devices coupled to each other through a midplane. Each data processing device includes a data storage processor; a root complex...
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7062593 |
Circuit system and method for data transmission between LPC devices
The present invention provides a circuit system for data transmission between LPC devices, comprising: a first LPC bus, connected to a first LPC device; a second LPC bus, connected to a second LPC...
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7058738 |
Configurable PCI express switch which allows multiple CPUs to be connected to multiple I/O devices
A configurable switch that enables multiple CPUs to be connected to multiple I/O devices through a single switch. The switches can be cascaded to enable more CPUs and/or more I/O devices in the...
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7054983 |
USB-HUB device and its control method
A USB-HUB device in which a request for a device connected to a port of the USB-HUB device may be executed by commonly using a serial interface engine of the HUB device has been disclosed. A...
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