Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP
Method and apparatus for verifying consistency between a first address repeater and a second address repeater
In a computer system having a first repeater and a second repeater, the first repeater coupled to the second repeater by a bus, the first repeater operable to transmit a transaction and a control signal to the second repeater, a method, performed by the second repeater, of generating an error comprising: predicting, in a first cycle, that a transaction should be transmitted from the first repeater to the second repeater; determining if a control signal was received within a predetermined number of cycles of the first cycle; and if the control signal is not received within the predetermined number of cycles of the first cycle, then generating an error.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Brian L. James C. Tai
Smith Lewis Quan