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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Andrew R. Ranck, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mushfiq U. Saleheen, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Jie Zheng, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04L 12/861 (2013.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2013.01); H04L 12/40 (2013.01); H04L 49/90 (2013.01); G06F 13/4027 (2013.01);
Abstract
Communication between one communication bus having one set of characteristics and another communication bus having another set of characteristics is facilitated by a bridge coupling the two communication buses. The bridge includes a scoreboard to manage data communicated between the buses. In one particular example, the one communication bus is a Processor Local Bus (PLB6) and the other communication bus is an Application Specific Integrated Chip (ASIC) Interconnect Bus (AIB).