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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1999
Dale E. Gulick, Austin, TX (US);
Geoffrey S. S. Strongin, Austin, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system includes a first integrated circuit having a first function and a second integrated circuit having a plurality of second functions. A communication link connects the first integrated circuit and the second integrated circuit. The communication link includes at least one logical pipe having a source side on the first circuit and a target side on the second integrated circuit, the one pipe carrying transactions over the communication link between the first function and the second functions. The pipe is identified by a pipe identification carried in the transactions. A target side distributor circuit is coupled between the second functions and the communication link. The target side distributor circuit receives those transactions from the communication link having the pipe identification. The target side distributor circuit provides transactions received from the communication link having the pipe identification to respective ones of the second functions according to an address field included in the transactions.