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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2013
Applicant:
Altera Canada Co., Halifax, CA;
Inventor:
Wally Haas, Mount Pearl, CA;
Assignee:
Altera Canada Co., Halifax, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/50 (2006.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/933 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/1515 (2013.01); H04L 49/109 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention discloses an apparatus to implement a m=n Non-Blocking Minimal Spanning Switch, where n=the total number of data input signals and m=the total number of data output signals and m=the number of crossbar connections in each switch. Data is input to the switch as a plurality of frames, whereby each crossbar connection contains a framer which detects framing patterns in the data. Skewed data is re-aligned and buffered so that the data output by each crossbar connection is equal and identical, thus any crossbar connection may be used to ensure a connection, eliminating the possibility of data interrupts.