Apparatus for generating a channel time-out signal after 16.38 milliseconds
US5581794A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 1, 1995 |
| Grant date | Dec 3, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 1, 2015 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/835
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus and method for processing channel time-out for input/output channels in a data processing system. A counting device is provided which cycles through a count indicative, in a first part, of each of a plurality of channels in the data processing system and, in a second part, a sequence of time indications. A time indication is saved for a particular channel upon the execution of an instruction for that channel and subsequent comparisons are made of the stored time indication and the present time indication to determine if a difference in these two time indications is sufficient to constitute a time-out.
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