Patent ID: 6889343
Filing Date: 2005-05-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. 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: a) predicting, in a first cycle, that a transaction should be transmitted from the first repeater to the second repeater, the act of predicting including an arbiter predicting, based at least in part upon the arbiter receiving a second signal from a third repeater, that the transaction should be transmitted; b) determining if a control signal was received within a predetermined number of cycles of the first cycle; and c) if the control signal was not received within the predetermined number of cycles of the first cycle, then generating an error.