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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2001
Wolf-dietrich Weber, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Aras, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lisa A. Robinson, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Geert P. Rosseel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jay S. Tomlinson, San Jose, CA (US);
Drew E. Wingard, San Carlos, CA (US);
Wolf-Dietrich Weber, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Aras, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lisa A. Robinson, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Geert P. Rosseel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jay S. Tomlinson, San Jose, CA (US);
Drew E. Wingard, San Carlos, CA (US);
Sonics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A communication system. One embodiment includes at least two functional blocks, wherein an first functional block communicates with a second functional block by establishing a connection. A connection is a logical state in which data may pass between the first functional block and the second functional block. One embodiment includes a bus coupled to each of the functional blocks and configured to carry a plurality of signals. The plurality of signals includes a thread identifier that indicates a transaction stream that the data transfer is part of and a busy signal identified by the thread identifier. The busy signal is issued by the target functional block when resources will be unavailable to perform a transfer.