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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark L Gerhold, Paoli, PA (US);
Assignee:
Burroughs Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ;
Abstract
A high speed interconnect network for a relatively large number of processors from as few as five to a hundred or more where the information transfers are serial-by-byte in a time multiplexed manner so that when one or more processors is ready to transmit, there will be an information byte being transmitted every clock time. A bus arbiter controls access to a local bus in a round-robin fashion when one or more than one processor is requesting access to the local bus. The bus arbiter also serves for connection to an overall global loop of bus arbiters each of which has a local bus and a plurality of individual processors.