Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Yan Bei

Alan Gatherer

Fang Yu

Debashis Bhattacharya

Hao Luan

Lee Dobson McFearin

Tong Sun

Mark W Brown

Peter Yan

Alex Elisa Chandra

Xiaotao Chen

Xingfeng Chen

Jun Ying

Ke Ning

Chushun Huang

Methods and apparatus for inter-process communication are provided. A circuit may have a plurality of clusters, and at least one cluster may have a computation element (CE), a memory operatively coupled with the CE, and an autonomic transport system (ATS) block operatively coupled with the CE and the memory. The ATS block may be configured to perform inter-process communication (IPC) for the at least one cluster. In one embodiment, the ATS block may transfer a message to a different cluster based on a request from the CE. In another embodiment, the ATS block may receive a message by allocating a buffer in the memory and write the message into the buffer. The ATS block may also be configured to manage synchronization and schedule tasks for the CE.

Scalable autonomic message-transport with synchronization

Disclosed herein are a shared memory controller and a method of controlling a shared memory. An embodiment method of controlling a shared memory includes concurrently scanning-in a plurality of read/write commands for respective transactions. Each of the plurality of read/write commands includes respective addresses and respective priorities. Additionally, each of the respective transactions is divisible into at least one beat and at least one of the respective transactions is divisible into multiple beats. The method also includes dividing the plurality of read/write commands into respective beat-level read/write commands and concurrently arbitrating the respective beat-level read/write commands according to the respective addresses and the respective priorities. Concurrently arbitrating yields respective sequences of beat-level read/write commands corresponding to the respective addresses. The method further includes concurrently dispatching the respective sequences of beat-level read/write commands to the shared memory, thereby accessing the shared memory.

Shared memory controller and method of using same

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Yan Bei