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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2013
Lsi Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Earl T. Cohen, Oakland, CA (US);
Mark vonGnechten, Fremont, CA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a plurality of processors, a message fabric, and a plurality of hardware units. Each of the plurality of processors comprises a plurality of communication FIFOs and has an instruction set including at least one instruction to send a message via at least one of the plurality of communication FIFOs. The message fabric couples the processors via at least some of the plurality of communication FIFOs . Each of the processors is associated with a respective one or more of the hardware units and coupled to each of the associated hardware units via respective hardware unit input and output communication FIFOs. Each of the processors is enabled to send messages to others of the processors via respective processor output communication FIFOs. The respective hardware units associated with each of the processors are enabled to send messages to the associated processor via the respective hardware unit input communication FIFOs.