Patents Examined by Kee Wei Tung
  • Patent number: 5579473
    Abstract: A frame buffer memory device controller that schedules and dispatches operations to frame buffer memory devices is disclosed. The frame buffer memory device controller schedules and dispatches cache control operations to reduce timing overheads caused by cache prefetch operations, and operations to write back dirty cache lines and clear cache lines in the frame buffer memory devices. The frame buffer memory device controller also schedules and dispatches control operations to reduce timing overheads caused by video refresh operations from the frame buffer memory devices video output ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen A. Schlapp, Michael F. Deering, Ewa M. Kubalska, Michael G. Lavelle