Operating characteristics and input/output characteristics of the peripheral device and all intervening hardware devices placed between the operating system ...
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an external peripheral device interface for communicating with said peripheral ... with each unique data transfer characteristics of the peripheral device, ...
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A controller for interfacing bus-coupled peripheral devices with a microcomputer is described. The controller provides generalized compensation for variations in peripheral device access recovery time and for differences in access recovery times among peripheral devices, central processing units and input/output buses.
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A computer system automatically senses characteristics of diverse peripheral devices connected to a common communications port, and automatically maximizes the communications speed with the devices. C ... the controller receiving an identifier from each peripheral device attached to the controller port;
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An extensible device-independent and scalable modular software layer in a peripheral device. The modular software layer facilitates communication between components of the peripheral device. ... Modular layer for abstracting peripheral hardware characteristics description/claims...
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[0012] In the design of computer systems, it is often important for software developers as well as design engineers to better understand operating characteristics of one or more peripheral device, such as device utilization, power consumption and the like.
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configuring each of said set of descriptor means to independently reflect characteristics of an individual peripheral device's data path. 17. A method for implementing peripheral device bus mastering in a desktop personal computer (PC) system comprising the steps of: providing a desktop PC system;
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configuring each of said set of descriptor means to independently reflect characteristics of an individual peripheral device's data path. 15. The method of claim 11 wherein said step of providing DMA controller means further comprises the step of implementing said DMA controller as a distributed DMA target slice.
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An emulation methodology utilizes increasing microprocessor performance characteristics and System Management Mode ("SMM") to emulate peripheral device functions in a computer system. The emulation me ... When the peripheral device is completely emulated, it can be replaced, for example, with a less expensive,
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Getting Started -- Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals: HP 9000 Computers, HP Part Number 'B2355-90675', Publication Date 'January 2000' ... Device special files tell the operating system which device driver to use, how to find the peripheral device, and what special characteristics the peripheral device employs...
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