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US 6,324,596 B1Granted
Providing device status during bus retry operations
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorTodd C. Houg
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Abstract
A technique to provide device status information includes obtaining device status information, determining when a bus retry operation is being executed, and routing the device status information to a bus if a bus retry operation is being executed.
Claims22
A method, comprising:
- obtaining indication of a status of a device;
- indicating a bus retry operation;
- and
- routing the indication of the device status to an output circuit in response to indicating the bus retry operation.
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A method, comprising:
- storing status information in a target device;
- providing a request to the target device;
- and
- providing the status information from the target device in response to determining that the request may not be completed by the target device.
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A method, comprising:
- storing status information;
- receiving a bus transaction from an initiating device;
- determining whether the bus transaction can be completed;
- and
- providing the status information to the initiating device in response to determining that the bus transaction may not be completed.
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A method, comprising:
- initiating a read transaction to access a target device;
- receiving a bus retry transaction indication from the target device;
- and
- receiving status information from the target device in response to receiving the bus retry transaction indication.
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A method, comprising:
- storing a data pattern within a device;
- storing status information within the device;
- and
- routing the status information over a bus when the device is executing a bus retry operation and routing the data pattern over the bus when the device is not executing the bus retry operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.