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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
May. 24, 2007
Riccardo Locatelli, Le Fontanil, FR;
Marcello Coppola, Sassenage, FR;
Giuseppe Maruccia, Grenoble, FR;
Lorenzo Pieralisi, Seyssins, FR;
Riccardo Locatelli, Le Fontanil, FR;
Marcello Coppola, Sassenage, FR;
Giuseppe Maruccia, Grenoble, FR;
Lorenzo Pieralisi, Seyssins, FR;
STMicroelectronics SA, Montrouge, FR;
Abstract
A bandwidth allocator to allocate in real time shared resources of a network on-chip is disclosed. The bandwidth allocator routes data packets between elements of the network in response to requests to access the shared resources. The bandwidth allocator could include a plurality of network interfaces to process the data packets to be routed within the network and a plurality of routers for routing the data packets through the network. A processor, distributed within the routers, controls the routers and the transmission of each data of the data packets through the routers to provide a bandwidth for each data flow. The network interfaces is adapted to fill a header field of each data packet with header field information depending on a requested bandwidth. The processor controls the transmission of the data packets through the routers as a function of the value of the header field information of each data packet.