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    • 3. 发明授权
    • Method and apparatus for providing concurrent access by a plurality of
agents to a shared memory
    • 用于提供由多个代理程序并发访问共享存储器的方法和装置
    • US5815167A
    • 1998-09-29
    • US672099
    • 1996-06-27
    • Manish MuthalNilesh V. ShahKuljit Bains
    • Manish MuthalNilesh V. ShahKuljit Bains
    • G06T1/60G06F12/06G06F13/16G06F13/18G06F15/16G06F15/167G06T1/20G09G5/00
    • G06F15/167G06F13/1647
    • A computer system, including a graphics controller and a memory controller, employs a Shared Frame Buffer Architecture, and accordingly has a shared memory in the form a bank of DRAMs. The shared memory is accessible by both the memory and graphics controllers. The memory includes a shared DRAM row in which a Shared Frame Buffer (SFB) aperture is defined. An interface selectively provides access to the shared DRAM row by the graphics or memory controller, while providing permanent access to the remaining DRAM rows by the memory controller. This facilitates concurrent access by the graphics controller and the memory controller to the shared DRAM row and to the remaining DRAM rows respectively, in a first memory access scenario. The accessibility of the shared DRAM row by the memory controller, in a second memory access scenario, is also maintained. The interface includes a selector circuit, such as a multiplexor or Q-switch, coupled to receive memory address signals and control signals from the graphics controller and the memory controller via a dedicated bus from each of these controllers. The selector circuit is operable selectively to present either memory address to the shared DRAM row, in which the SFB aperture is defined, and also selectively to provide access to the shared DRAM row by either controller. The selector circuit is operable by a logic circuit, incorporated within the systems controller, which determines whether a memory access request received from the memory controller is to an address in the shared DRAM row, or in the remaining DRAM rows.
    • 包括图形控制器和存储器控制器的计算机系统采用共享帧缓冲器架构,因此具有一组DRAM形式的共享存储器。 共享内存可由内存和图形控制器访问。 存储器包括共享DRAM行,其中定义了共享帧缓冲器(SFB)孔径。 接口选择性地提供对图形或存储器控制器对共享DRAM行的访问,同时由存储器控制器永久地访问剩余的DRAM行。 这有助于在第一存储器访问场景中分别由图形控制器和存储器控制器同时访问共享的DRAM行和剩余的DRAM行。 在第二存储器访问场景中,存储器控制器的共享DRAM行的可访问性也被保持。 该接口包括诸如多路复用器或Q开关的选择器电路,其经由来自这些控制器中的每一个的专用总线耦合以从图形控制器和存储器控制器接收存储器地址信号和控制信号。 选择器电路可选择地可操作地将存储器地址呈现给共享DRAM行,其中定义了SFB孔径,并且还选择性地通过任一控制器提供对共享DRAM行的访问。 选择器电路可由逻辑电路操作,该逻辑电路包括在系统控制器内,该逻辑电路确定从存储器控制器接收到的存储器访问请求是否是共享DRAM行中的地址或剩余的DRAM行中的地址。