Method and apparatus for performing bus transactions in a computer system
US5903738A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 17, 1996 |
| Grant date | May 11, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 17, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F13/37
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus of performing bus transactions on the external bus of the computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for permitting out-of-order replies in a pipelined bus system. The out-of-order responses include the sending of tokens between both the requesting agents and the responding agents in the computer system without the use of dedicated token buses.
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