Computer system including a receiver interface circuit with a scatter pointer queue and related methods

摘要

A computer system may include a processor, at least one memory coupled to the processor and having a plurality of scattered memory locations each having a pointer associated therewith, and a receiver interface circuit coupled to the at least one memory. The receiver interface circuit may include a scatter pointer queue for storing available pointers corresponding to available scattered memory locations. The scatter pointer queue may also store unavailable pointers corresponding to unavailable scattered memory locations. The receiver interface circuit may also include a receiver for receiving the data and writing the received data to the available scattered memory locations based upon the available pointers in the scatter pointer queue.