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Work station including a direct memory access controller and interfacing means to a data channel

US5428751A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 30, 1991
Grant dateJun 27, 1995
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Expiry dateAug 30, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F13/405
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A work station having a local bus connected to a CPU, and an interface chip connected between an external bus and the local bus, The buses have different operating frequencies, The interface chip includes a DMA unit and interfacing unit connected to an internal bus, The DMA unit controls data transfer between the external and local buses, The first interfacing unit includes a synchronizer for compensating for the different operating frequencies.

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