发明名称 Efficient bus utilization in a multiprocessor system by dynamically mapping memory addresses
摘要 In one embodiment of the present invention, a slave interface circuit includes a slave access circuit and a slave bus decoder. The slave access circuit provides access to the one of P slave devices from one of N master processors via a system bus controller and K slave buses. The K slave buses are configured to couple to the P slave devices. The system bus controller dynamically maps address spaces of the P slave devices. The slave bus decoder enables the one of the P slave devices to connect to one of the K slave buses when the one of the P slave devices is addressed by the one of the N master processors. The slave bus decoder is controlled by the system bus controller. In another embodiment of the present invention, the system bus controller includes an arbiter, a mapping circuit, and a switching circuit. The arbiter arbitrates access requests from N master processors via N master buses and generates arbitration signals. The mapping circuit stores mapping information to dynamically map an address space of K slave devices coupled to K slave buses based on the arbitration signals. The switching circuit connects the N master buses to K slave buses based on the arbitration signals and the mapping information.
申请公布号 US6883051(B2) 申请公布日期 2005.04.19
申请号 US20030706675 申请日期 2003.11.12
申请人 SONY ELECTRONICS INC. 发明人 WANG SHENG HUNG;KIM SIMON S.
分类号 G06F12/06;(IPC1-7):G06F13/00 主分类号 G06F12/06
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