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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2003
Michael G. Love, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael G. Love, San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure involves an on-chip bus architecture involving an on-chip bus that includes a collector node and at least one device node. Each device node is in communication with an on-chip device. The collector node is capable of conducting the multiple outstanding transactions with a plurality of on-chip devices over the on-chip bus wherein each on-chip device transmits all of its data signals across the on-chip bus in the form of packets. The on-chip bus includes at least one bus register, and each of the multiple on-chip devices includes at least one device register. The on-chip bus can provide top level register to register communications between the device register and the bus register. In one version, the on-chip bus is a distributed packet on-chip (DPO) bus.