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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1993
Walter C Dietrich, Jr, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Mark A Lavin, Katonah, NY (US);
Hungwen Li, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Ming-Cheng Sheng, Kaoshiung, TW;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a multiprocessor system, memory accesses by the individual processing elements are checked by a common controller. The controller includes a table of values defining valid memory locations for a task. The controller verifies the address value used by each instruction to ensure that, it is within a valid memory area for the particular task. Additional circuitry for the controller and processing elements allows finer control, of memory accessibility. The multiprocessor system may be coupled to a host computer through a buffer. Data is serially written into the buffer by the host and is read out of the buffer in parallel by the multiprocessor system. The buffer used in this system includes apparatus which calculates an error correction code from a serial data stream and passes this code, along with the data, to the multiprocessor system. The multiprocessor system includes apparatus which processes the data in parallel to handle errors occurring during transfers as indicated by the code.