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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2001
Anthony Peter John Claydon, Bath, GB;
Anthony Peter John Claydon, Bath, GB;
Mindspeed Technologies U.K., Limited, Bath, GB;
Abstract
A processor architecture includes a plurality of processing elements and a bus structure. Each element has at least one input port and at least one output port, each port having at least a data bus and a valid data signal line. The bus structure contains a plurality of switches arranged to connect an output port of any first processing element to the input port of any second processing element for a time interval. Each processing element sets a value on the valid data signal line of its output port to a first logic state when the associated data bus contains a transfer value and to a second logic state when it does not contain a transfer value. Each processing element enters a waiting state for a predetermined time interval when the value on the valid data signal line of the associated input port is in the second logic state.