A high performance peripheral interface device is coupled to a computer via a computer bus and is coupled to a peripheral via a peripheral bus. To speed accessing of consecutively addressed data (the nth datum and the n+1th datum) from the peripheral, the interface device reads the n+1th datum from the...http://www.google.de/patents/US6131132?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6131132 - High performance peripheral interface
