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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael Cooperman, Framingham, MA (US);
Assignee:
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; G01R / ; H04J / ; H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370388 ; 370388 ; 370243 ; 370112 ; 370113 ; 3408258 ; 34082502 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to the fast reconfiguration of tree switches. In particular, on-chip parallel control signals are time staggered so that they track the propagation of data or information bits. As a result, it is unnecessary to stop the flow of data bits from the data inputs to the data outputs during the reconfiguration of the tree switch.