Leonard J Schultz

US Patent:

59648562, Oct 12, 1999

Filed:

Sep 30, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/940050

Inventors:

William S. Wu - Cupertino CA
Leonard Schultz - San Jose CA
Dilip K. Sampath - Sunnyvale CA
Muthurajan Jayakumar - Sunnyvale CA
Bindi A. Prasad - Los Altos CA

Assignee:

Intel Corporation - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 1314
G06F 1300
G06F 104

US Classification:

710110

Abstract:

In a microprocessor system having a bus clock running at a bus clock rate, a method for reducing an idle interval between a first data transfer and a second data transfer, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first strobe signal and a second strobe signal for synchronizing said first and second data transfers with the bus clock; a pre-driving the first strobe signal before the first data transfer, the first strobe signal running at the bus clock rate during the first data transfer; and pre-driving one of the first and second strobe signals before the second data transfer, said one of the first and second strobe signals running at the bus clock rate during the second data transfer.