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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1991
James P Millar, San Jose, CA (US);
Eddie B Collins, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronald Weber, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Clifford A Petersen, San Jose, CA (US);
Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Determinism is maintained in a synchronous first system although the first system receives behaviorchanging signals from a second system running asynchronously relative to the first system. The second system refrains from sending behavior-changing signals to the first system until the first system stops its clock at a prespecified clock cycle and signals the second system of the event. The second system then downloads the behavior-changing signals into the first system and restarts the first system clock. The first system awakens to discover that the behavior-changing signals have been received during the prespecified clock cycle. This is repeated over multiple runs, and in each run the same behavior-changing signals are transferred at the same prespecified clock cycles of the first system. Deterministic behavior is thereby maintained in the first system.