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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1992
Michael L Campbell, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Michael W Yung, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A system (30) and method is provided for enumerating acyclic paths in an information processing system. The system (30) incorporates multiple processor nodes (18) or functional units interconnected by point-to-point links (20). The hardware of the information processor is represented as a mixed graph with graph nodes (32) for processors and with graph edges (34) representing communication links (20). All the useful paths from the source nodes of the data to the destination nodes of the data are determined in accordance with the system and method of the present invention. These paths are then stored as a list in a table indexed by the source and destination nodes. Thus, when the need for a interprocessor communication path arises, the table can be consulted to find a permissible path. The system (30) efficiently performs interprocessor communication routing and can be utilized in real time.