Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Circuit switch pre-reservation in an on-chip network
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Application No.: US14400557Application Date: 2013-09-12
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Publication No.: US10445287B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: Yan Solihin
- Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Applicant Address: US DE Wilmington
- Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
- Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US DE Wilmington
- International Application: PCT/US2013/059335 WO 20130912
- International Announcement: WO2015/038120 WO 20150319
- Main IPC: G06F15/167
- IPC: G06F15/167 ; H04L12/773 ; H04L12/933 ; G06F15/78 ; H04L12/937

Abstract:
Techniques described herein generally include methods and systems related to circuit switching in a network-on-chip. According to embodiments of the disclosure, a network-on-chip may include routers configured to pre-reserve circuit-switched connections between a source node and a destination node before requested data are available for transmission from the source node to the destination node. Because the circuit-switched connection is already established between the source node and the destination node when the requested data are available for transmission from the source node, the data can be transmitted without the delay or with reduced delay caused by setup overhead of the circuit-switched connection. A connection setup message may be transmitted together with a memory request from the destination node to facilitate pre-reservation of the circuit-switched connection.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150331831A1 CIRCUIT SWITCH PRE-RESERVATION IN AN ON-CHIP NETWORK Public/Granted day:2015-11-19
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