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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2001
Carl Dietz Mccrosky, Saskatoon, CA;
Andrew Milton Hughes, Saskatoon, CA;
Kenneth Evert Sailor, Saskatoon, CA;
Paul Edmund Somogyi, Saskatoon, CA;
James Ames Meacham, Ii, Framingham, MA (US);
Carl Dietz McCrosky, Saskatoon, CA;
Andrew Milton Hughes, Saskatoon, CA;
Kenneth Evert Sailor, Saskatoon, CA;
Paul Edmund Somogyi, Saskatoon, CA;
James Ames Meacham, II, Framingham, MA (US);
PMC-Sierra, Inc., Burnaby, CA;
Abstract
A method of adding a new connection (c, d) to a time:space:time switch fabric. The fabric has a set I of k input elements, a set M of m switch elements, and a set O of l output elements. Each input element contributes one input to each switch element, and each output element receives one output from each switch element. A state Scharacterizes the switch elements as a set of ordered pairs (i, j), where (i, j) ε Sif and only if the joutput element is coupled to the iinput element through one of the switch elements. The range of Sis the set of outputs of Ssuch that if j ε range(S) then (i, j) ε Sfor some i ε I. The domain of Sis the set of inputs of Ssuch that if i ε domain(S) then (i, j) ε Sfor some j ε O.