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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2005
Wolf-dietrich Weber, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Meyer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Wolf-Dietrich Weber, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Meyer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sonics, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are described for a communication system. The communication system may include one or more initiator agents, where each agent couples to its own Intellectual Property core. The communication system may also include two or more target agents, where each agent couples to its own Intellectual Property core. The communication system may also include an interconnect using an end-to-end width conversion mechanism. The conversion mechanism converts data widths between the initiator agent and a first target agent. Two or more branches of pathways in the interconnect exist between the initiator agent and the two or more target agents. The conversion mechanism to use a lookup table that includes data width information of the initiator agent and the two or more branches of pathways to the two or more target agents to concurrently pre-compute width conversion signals for each of the target agent branches.