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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
Julie A. Ward, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Troy A. Shahoumian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Julie A. Ward, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Troy A. Shahoumian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A technique for designing an interconnect fabric for communication between a set of source nodes and a set of terminal nodes. A design for an interconnect fabric is obtained having an interconnect device layer. The layer is adjacent to either the set of source nodes or the set of terminal nodes. Flow sets that traverse the layer of interconnect devices are identified. A pair of the flow sets are merged thereby alleviating at least one port violation. The technique may be implemented programmatically by a design tool.