Multi-mode, multi-channel communication bus

Details Multi-mode, multi-channel communication bus Multi-mode, multi-channel communication bus

1997-12-18

1999-08-10

Patel, Ajit

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Through a circuit switch

395306, 395307, 370257, H04L 1250, G06F 1340

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active

059369531

ABSTRACT:
A dynamically reconfigurable, multi-mode, multi-channel communication bus. The bus may be dynamically reconfigured into a plurality fo segments, or slices, to provide a relatively wide unified bus, or smaller versions of the bus. This allows multiple bus masters to coexist at the same time that control the bus. The protocol is adaptive in that bus widths dynamically change to allow addition or removal of bus masters at any time. Bus acquisition delays caused by bus arbitration latency using a packetized protocol regime are drastically reduced or eliminated in some systems by using the present bus. The bus demonstrates relatively high efficiency.

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patent: 5191653 (1993-03-01), Banks
patent: 5483518 (1996-01-01), Whetsel
patent: 5548786 (1996-08-01), Amini
patent: 5627976 (1997-05-01), McFarland

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