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7173906 Flexible crossbar switching fabric  
A crossbar switching fabric comprising a plurality of crossbar input ports and a plurality of crossbar output ports. The traffic from at least one source is directed to more than one of the...
7171542 Reconfigurable interface for coupling functional input/output blocks to limited number of i/o pins  
A reconfigurable processor system n an intergrated circuit includes a processor core that operates on a set of instructions to carry out predefined processes. A plurality of input/output pins are...
7171504 Transmission unit  
A transmission unit that improves communication quality by making effective use of a line to a blocked port in compliance with a spanning tree protocol. Bridges have bridge ports and communicate at...
7155557 Communication mechanism  
The invention provides an interconnection architecture for semiconductor devices. Cross bar switches are traditionally placed in the center of the IC. However, this location may also be the...
7152137 Method for exchanging data between a plurality of subscribers by means of a data bus  
The invention relates to a method for exchanging data between a plurality of subscribers (K 1 , K 2 , K 3 , K) by means of a data bus. The subscribers are located in their totality in at least two...
7143196 System and method for span port configuration  
A shared I/O subsystem for a plurality of computer systems. The shared I/O subsystem includes a plurality of ports that communicatively couple the computer systems to the shared I/O subsystem where...
7136959 Data storage system having crossbar packet switching network  
A system interface having: a packet switching network; a cache memory; and a plurality of directors. One portion of such directors is adapted for coupling to a host computer/server and another...
7136958 Multiple processor system and method including multiple memory hub modules  
A processor-based electronic system includes several memory modules arranged in first and second ranks. The memory modules in the first rank are directly accessed by any of several processors, and...
7133951 Alternate set of registers to service critical interrupts and operating system traps  
A processor includes a set of general purpose registers that are used when executing generic tasks and a set of exception registers that is dedicated for servicing specific exceptions. When a task...
7124410 Distributed allocation of system hardware resources for multiprocessor systems  
A method is provided for allocating system resources across multiple nodes of a system communicating through a hardware device. The method provides for allocation of transaction units or...
7117287 History FIFO with bypass wherein an order through queue is maintained irrespective of retrieval of data  
An apparatus and method for maintaining a circular FIFO (first-in, first-out) queue in an I/O (input-output) subsystem of a computer system such as a server, workstation, or storage machine. The...
7096310 Switch configurable for a plurality of communication protocols  
In at least some embodiments of the invention, a system may comprise a plurality of electronic devices adapted to send and receive data, wherein each electronic device uses any one of a plurality...
7093058 Single request data transfer regardless of size and alignment  
A method, computer system and set of signals are disclosed allowing for communication of a data transfer, via a bus, between a master and a slave using a single transfer request regardless of...
7093041 Dual purpose PCI-X DDR configurable terminator/driver  
A dual purpose PCI-X DDR configurable terminator/driver providing programmable termination of the interface in a PCI-X system a plurality of N-channel devices divided into at least two groups and a...
7089346 Method of operating a crossbar switch  
The present invention relates to a method of operating a crossbar switch ( 1 ) having a control logic ( 2 ) and n input ports (i — 0 , . . . , i_n- 1 ) and m output ports (o — 0 , . . . , o_m-...
7076595 Programmable logic device including programmable interface core and central processing unit  
A programmable logic device (PLD) includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a programmable interface coupled to the CPU, wherein the programmable interface includes a core designated by a user....
7076594 Apparatus and method for preventing one way connectivity loops in a computer network  
Ports of a switch are assigned by a person, for example a network manager, to be for communication up the spanning tree toward the root switch (“up ports”), or down the spanning tree away from...
7062596 Self-synchronizing half duplex matrix switch  
A datalink for a system of N computers, and M monitors and peripheral devices is described. Separate state machines are provided for each switched computer, and separate state machines for each...
7062586 Method and apparatus for communication within a programmable logic device using serial transceivers  
Method and apparatus for communication within a programmable logic device using serial transceivers is described. In an example, an integrated circuit includes a first module and a second module....
7058751 Packet switch  
The packet switch performs a scheduling process by selecting a unicast packet or a multicast packet to be output from each of N input buffers such that input lines and output lines cannot conflict...
7058750 Scalable distributed memory and I/O multiprocessor system  
A multiprocessor system comprises at least one processing module, at least one I/O module, and an interconnect network to connect the at least one processing module with the at least one...
7058738 Configurable PCI express switch which allows multiple CPUs to be connected to multiple I/O devices  
A configurable switch that enables multiple CPUs to be connected to multiple I/O devices through a single switch. The switches can be cascaded to enable more CPUs and/or more I/O devices in the...
7057412 Configurable crossbar switch  
A configurable crossbar switch is provided between the signaling I/O and the IP block in a programmable logic resource. A programmable logic resource receives input data via an I/O port. This data...
7051150 Scalable on chip network  
A scalable network for supporting an application using processing elements including ports, an interconnect, port interfaces, and an arbiter. Each port conforms to a consistent port interface...
7047350 Data processing system having a serial data controller  
A data processing system ( 30 ) includes two processors ( 70, 80 ) and a serial data controller ( 36 ) for selectively multiplexing serial data signals between one or more of a plurality of serial...
7043596 Method and apparatus for simulation processor  
A method and apparatus for computation is provided. A main cluster crossbar is connected to a plurality of statically scheduled routing processors. A first sub-cluster crossbar is associated with a...
7039750 On-chip switch fabric  
A system for communication on a chip. The system includes an on-chip communication bus including plural tracks, and a plurality of stations that couple a plurality of on-chip components to the...
7039736 Systems and methods for accessing bus-mastered system resources  
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing access to bus-mastered system resources comprising disposing a bus multiplexer between a first bus and a bus access arbiter, wherein the first bus is...
7028134 Crossbar integrated circuit with parallel channels for a communication device  
Communication circuitry is comprised of processing circuitry, parallel channels, and crossbar integrated circuits. The processing circuitry exchanges the communications between communication links...
7028118 Multi-channel buffered serial port debugging  
In digital signal processors serial data is passed in out and of the chip in a time division multiplexed (TDM) fashion. The TDM stream consists of many independent channels of serial data. The...
7028110 Computer and computer system having security features  
A computer device with switching function comprises a connector for input/output devices, at least one internal computer, at least one connector for an external computer, and a switching unit for...
7020131 System and method for hierarchical switching  
A system and method have been provided for hierarchically arbitrating in a broadband information switching network. The method promotes the fair and efficient distribution of information packets...
7013361 Routing switcher with variable input/output architecture  
Conventional routing switchers have employed a fixed architecture, i.e. the input and output connectors of the switching matrix are fixed in function. Prior art routing switchers use fixed matrix...
6995656 Switching device comprising local decoding means  
The invention relates to a switching device comprising a plurality of inputs and outputs which are interconnected by a matrix of interconnection points for transmitting electric signals supplied...
6993621 Data storage system having separate data transfer section and message network with plural directors on a common printed circuit board and redundant switching networks  
A system interface includes a plurality of first director boards. Each one of the first director boards has a plurality of first directors and a crossbar switch having input/output ports coupled to...
6988162 High-speed router with single backplane distributing both power and signaling  
A high-speed, high-power modular router is disclosed. As opposed to conventional designs using optical backplane signaling and/or bus bars for power distribution, the disclosed embodiments combine...
6988154 Memory interface and method of interfacing between functional entities  
A data and signal interface for controlling the transfer of data and signals between a memory array and macro function such as that of a digital signal processor (DSP) core. In one embodiment, the...
6981090 Multiple use of microcontroller pad  
A circuit arrangement permits a microcontroller wirebond pad to be configured to be an analog or digital input or output. The circuit arrangement uses any of a plurality of switching configurations...
6981057 Data storage with stored location data to facilitate disk swapping  
A first image processing system, a second image processing system, a first storage system and a second storage system communicate over a high bandwidth switch. The switch connects the first...
6978341 Computer, a method of connecting devices to data bus controllers, a method of allocating the bandwidth of a plurality of data bus controllers and apparatus therefor  
A computer having a plurality of data bus controllers, a plurality of grouped controller ports and a plurality of connection elements for connecting the controllers to the ports, wherein each...
6978340 I/O multiplexer and pin controller with serial and parallel capabilities for microprocessor based engine control  
A controller 12 has an I/O crossover switching network 14 , an optional I/O network expansion 16 , a plurality of serial I/O shifters 18 , a clock generator 20 and I/O control logic 22 ....
6973078 Method and apparatus for implementing low latency crossbar switches with integrated storage signals  
A digital crossbar switch utilizes an asynchronous RAM to provide high density and low latency storage and a write enable pulse generator to generate write enable pulses that are independent of the...
6970967 Crossbar circuit having a plurality of repeaters forming different repeater arrangements  
A crossbar circuit ( 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 ) having programmable repeater structures adapted to allow configuration of the crossbar with inputs at multiple sides of the crossbar die. A...
6961803 Sliced crossbar architecture with no inter-slice communication  
A method and apparatus includes identifying a first portion of a first message in a first slice of a switch, the first message associated with a first priority, the first portion of the first...
6954821 Crossbar switch that supports a multi-port slave device and method of operation  
A crossbar switch ( 12 ) arbitrates for access from multiple bus masters ( 14, 16, 18, 20 and 22 ) to multiple addressed slave ports ( 3 and 4 ) that have overlapping address ranges. In one...
6950893 Hybrid switching architecture  
A hybrid switching module includes a hybrid switching module processor data channel; a hybrid switching module main data channel; an input/output link data channel; a switch coupled to the hybrid...
6940308 Interconnection network for a field programmable gate array  
An interconnection network architecture which provides an interconnection network which is especially useful for FPGAs is described. Based upon Benes networks, the resulting network interconnect is...
6934788 Port expansion peripheral module system  
A user configurable, modular port expansion system allows the user of a host system such as a USB-enabled personal computer to customize a desired configuration of one or more peripheral device...
6931472 Integrated circuit and information processing device  
In an LSI system using an on-chip bus, when a transfer on the bus is delayed due to a fully loaded buffer in a destination module, a source module cannot proceed to the next processing. Such an...
6928509 Method and apparatus for enhancing reliability and scalability of serial storage devices  
A method, system and apparatus for providing inter-connective access of a plurality of controllers to a plurality of serial storage devices are provided. Serial storage devices are provided with a...
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