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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1998
Ferruccio Zulian, Milan, IT;
Aimone Zulian, Milan, IT;
Bull HN Information Systems Italia S.p.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
Computer system comprising a communication bus, a plurality of units connected to the bus, in which the bus includes a plurality of bus segments, each bus segment being concatenated with at least one adjacent bus portion by means of buffer registers to transfer a data item from the adjacent bus segment to the bus portion, the computer system further comprising an arbitration unit to control, for each bus segment, the simultaneous access to the different segments, in a mutually exclusive way, by the units connected to each of the segments and by the buffers for concatenation of each of the segments with at least one adjacent segment.