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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2001
John William Marshall, Cary, NC (US);
Barry S. Burns, Apex, NC (US);
Darren Kerr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John William Marshall, Cary, NC (US);
Barry S. Burns, Apex, NC (US);
Darren Kerr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A mechanism synchronizes instruction code executing on a processor of a processing engine in an intermediate network station. The processing engine is configured as a systolic array having a plurality of processors arrayed as rows and columns. The mechanism comprises a boundary (temporal) synchronization mechanism for cycle-based synchronization within a processor of the array. The synchronization mechanism is generally implemented using specialized synchronization micro operation codes ('opcodes').