Patent · US Expired

Method of requesting data by interlacing critical and non-critical data words of multiple data requests and apparatus therefor

US5668975A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 30, 1996
Grant dateSep 16, 1997
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Expiry dateSep 30, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F13/36
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of requesting data in a data processing system has the steps of receiving a plurality of requests for data by a request arbitrator (12) from a plurality of requesters (REQUESTER A, REQUESTER B, REQUESTER C), requesting a first portion of each request at a first time and requesting a second portion of each request at a second time. Each of the requests for data corresponds to a first portion of data. At least one of the requests also corresponds to a second portion of data. The first portions and second portion are requested according to a first and to a second predetermined order, respectively. The disclosed method requests a critical mount of data first for each request before any non-critical data portions are requested.

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