发明名称 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING BUS MASTER PERFORMANCE
摘要 A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing dynamic arbitration of memory accesses by a CPU and at least one bus master interface module based on, at least in part, monitoring a CPU throttle control signal and monitoring CPU power and performance states, and making decisions based on the monitored parameters. Bus master memory access break events and memory read and write accesses are also monitored as part of the arbitration process in accordance with certain embodiments of the present invention. An arbitration (ARB) module performs the dynamic arbitration. A CPU throttle control module generates the CPU throttle control signal, indicating when the CPU is idle, and also monitors and outputs the CPU power and performance states. A memory controller (MC) module controls accesses to the memory subsystem based on, at least in part, the dynamic arbitration performed by the dynamic arbitration module.
申请公布号 US2007208965(A1) 申请公布日期 2007.09.06
申请号 US20070745047 申请日期 2007.05.07
申请人 BROADCOM CORPORATION 发明人 MA KENNETH
分类号 G06F1/04;G06F1/32 主分类号 G06F1/04
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