Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cut-through buffer with variable frequencies
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Application No.: US15276911Application Date: 2016-09-27
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Publication No.: US10216656B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Jeffrey C. Hanscom , Eric N. Lais , John M. Pritz
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Agent Steven Chiu
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F13/40 ; G06F13/42 ; G06F11/00 ; G06F5/06

Abstract:
A system includes a cut-through buffer operable to be asynchronously read while being written at different clock frequencies. The system also includes a controller operatively connected to the cut-through buffer. The controller is operable to write one or more values into the cut-through buffer in a first clock domain and compare a number of values written into the cut-through buffer to a notification threshold. A notification indicator is passed from the first clock domain to a second clock domain based on determining that the number of values written into the cut-through buffer meets the notification threshold. Based on receiving the notification indicator, the cut-through buffer is read from the second clock domain continuously without pausing until the one or more values are retrieved and any additional values written to the cut-through buffer during the reading of the one or more values are retrieved.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180089114A1 CUT-THROUGH BUFFER WITH VARIABLE FREQUENCIES Public/Granted day:2018-03-29
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