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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera, San Jose, CA (US);
John V. Arthur, Mountain View, CA (US);
John E. Barth, Jr., Williston, VT (US);
Andrew S. Cassidy, San Jose, CA (US);
Subramanian S. Iyer, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Bryan L. Jackson, Fremont, CA (US);
Paul A. Merolla, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dharmendra S. Modha, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Sawada, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to an array of processor core circuits with reversible tiers. One embodiment comprises multiple tiers of core circuits and multiple switches for routing packets between the core circuits. Each tier comprises at least one core circuit. Each switch comprises multiple router channels for routing packets in different directions relative to the switch, and at least one routing circuit configured for reversing a logical direction of at least one router channel.