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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2011
Applicants:
Timothy Charles Mace, Suffolk, GB;
Andrew Christopher Rose, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Timothy Charles Mace, Suffolk, GB;
Andrew Christopher Rose, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); G06F 15/78 (2006.01); H04L 12/701 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G06F 15/7842 (2013.01); H04L 12/40084 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2013.01); H04L 45/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An integrated circuit comprising multiple master units and multiple slave units connected via interconnect circuitry utilizes token based node-to-node communication flow management within the interconnect circuitry with a network node requesting a token and receiving a token signal before it asserts its communication signals onto a physical communication link shared between multiple virtual networks.