Sonics, Incorporated

Richard Aras

Wolf-Dietrich Weber

Drew Eric Wingard

Jay S Tomlinson

Geert Paul Rosseel

Lisa A Robinson

A communication system. One embodiment includes at least two functional blocks, wherein an first functional block communicates with a second functional block by establishing a connection. A connection is a logical state in which data may pass between the first functional block and the second functional block. One embodiment includes a bus coupled to each of the functional blocks and configured to carry a plurality of signals. The plurality of signals includes a thread identifier that indicates a transaction stream that the data transfer is part of and a busy signal identified by the thread identifier. The busy signal is issued by the target functional block when resources will be unavailable to perform a transfer.

Communications system and method with non-blocking shared interface

A system and method for providing service guarantees for data flows between an initiator component and a target component. For each data flow, a set of channels is selected to carry the data flow from initiator to target. The individual performance guarantees of the selected channels are aligned to be uniform in units and the individual guarantees are aggregated to provide an end-to-end service guarantee for a particular flow.

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