Inter-chip processor control plane communication

Details Inter-chip processor control plane communication Inter-chip processor control plane communication

2002-05-30

2008-11-04

An, Meng-Ai (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Processing architecture

Array processor

C712S016000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07447872

ABSTRACT:
An inter-chip communication (ICC) mechanism enables any processor in a pipelined arrayed processing engine to communicate directly with any other processor of the engine over a low-latency communication path. The ICC mechanism includes a unidirectional control plane path that is separate from a data plane path of the engine and that accommodates control information flow among the processors. The mechanism thus enables inter-processor communication without sending messages over the data plane communication path extending through processors of each pipeline.

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