摘要 |
A method and apparatus for transferring data between bus agents (102-105) in a computer system (100). The present invention includes transmitting a control signal (428, 426), from a first agent (102-105) to a second agent (102-105), via a first transfer protocol; and transmitting data (308) corresponding to the control signal (428, 426), from the first agent (102-105) to the second agent (102-105), via a second transfer protocol. In one embodiment, the control signals (428, 426) are transmitted from the first agent (102-105) to the second agent (102-105) via a synchronous transmission with respect to a bus clock (600); and, the data is transmitted via an asynchronous transmission with respect to the bus clock (600). The synchronous transmission is a common clock data transfer protocol, and the asynchronous transmission is a source clock data transfer protocol.
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申请人 |
INTEL CORPORATION;MACWILLIAMS, PETER, D.;WU, WILLIAM, S.;SAMPATH, DILIP, K.;PRASAD, BINDI, A. |
发明人 |
MACWILLIAMS, PETER, D.;WU, WILLIAM, S.;SAMPATH, DILIP, K.;PRASAD, BINDI, A. |