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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2010
Applicant:
Dusan Suvakovic, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Inventor:
Dusan Suvakovic, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04J 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/00 (2013.01); H04J 3/047 (2013.01);
Abstract
A routing device such as either a 1:N demultiplexer or N:1 multiplexer can provide a power dissipation proportional to log(N) by augmenting a conventional data demultiplexer/multiplexer with additional control circuitry. The control circuit ensures that control signals that trigger configuration of individual demultiplexer/multiplexer elements are propagated only along a data transmission path. Logic components of the control circuitry enable the multiplexers to be self-configuring and to prevent multiplexers from switching to elements with empty data buffers.