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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1986
David J Lilja, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
A Richard Zacher, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Steven W Wierenga, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tandem Computers Incorporated, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A bus protocol system for interprocessor communications in valves polling the processors of a multiprocessor unit in an open loop fashion to determine which processors are ready to send. Upon completion of a simultaneous poll of all processors the system identifies which processor are ready to send by utilizing a send mask generated by the ready processors. The ready processors are sequentially selected as send processors and granted access to the bus for a complete data transfer cycle unless the selected processor indicates it is not ready to send. The system also includes a timing signal system that provides for a high data transfer rate. A send clock signal strobes words onto the bus from a send processor and a receive clock signal loads words from the bus to a receive processor. The send processor generates the receive clock signal by delaying the send clock signal by a fixed delay, DR.