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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2010
Filed:
May. 27, 2008
Michael F. Deering, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael G. Lavelle, Saratoga, CA (US);
Michael F. Deering, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael G. Lavelle, Saratoga, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A high-speed ring topology. In one embodiment, two base chip types are required: a 'drawing' chip, LoopDraw, and an 'interface' chip, LoopInterface. Each of these chips have a set of pins that supports an identical high speed point to point unidirectional input and output ring interconnect interface: the LoopLink. The LoopDraw chip uses additional pins to connect to several standard memories that form a high bandwidth local memory sub-system. The LoopInterface chip uses additional pins to support a high speed host computer host interface, at least one video output interface, and possibly also additional non-local interconnects to other LoopInterface chip(s).