Abstract:
A reconfigurable operation apparatus consists of a plurality of operation units capable of reconfiguring themselves by using a piece of given first configuration data and of operating simultaneously with one another; RAMs; diverse processor elements required for constituting an operation apparatus; an inter-resource network interconnecting the operation units, the RAMs and the diverse processor elements, performing data transfers between resources connected thereto in a uniform transfer time independent of positions and kinds of the resources, and being reconfigurable by using a given second configuration data; and a configuration memory storing the first and the second configuration data. Configuration data is loaded from an external storage apparatus onto the configuration memory, and the first and the second configuration data are supplied to the reconfigurable processor resources in appropriate sequence and timing based on data available from a plurality of operation units.
Abstract:
In a common buffering device with a simple arrangement, a write address can be efficiently released from a buffer memory upon receipt of a multi-address call. For an ATM cell which is to be transmitted to a specific line, a write address is set in a common buffer memory, and the ATM cell is written at the write address. The ATM cell is read from an address which corresponds to the write address, and is transmitted to the specific line. Then, the pertinent write address is released. In a write table are entered a plurality of multi-address lines across which an ATM cell written at a specific address in the common buffering device can be multicast. Each time the ATM cell is read from the specific address, a designation line for transmission of an ATM cell in a read control table is compared with the multi-address lines set in the write control table. When the lines match, the write address for the ATM cell, which is set in the write control table, is released.
Abstract:
In a data access device for writing into or read from a data conversion table on the basis of a clock signal extracted from a cell being transferred over a line, a clock signal generator of the invention generates a second clock signal which differs from the first clock signal extracted from an incoming cell. A write/read control unit writes data into or reads data for maintenance from the data conversion table on the basis of either the first clock signal or the second clock signal when the line is normal. In the event of the occurrence of a failure in the line, on the other hand, the write/read control circuit permits the data conversion table to be written into or read from for maintenance on the basis of the second clock signal.
Abstract:
A test system exactly checks the integrity of data in an ATM system, and generates a test cell of a desired band. In the first aspect of the system in which data stored in an ATM cell are transmitted in an 8-bit parallel format in the ATM system, a test cell generating device connected to an input line outputs a test cell having 1 in all of the eight bits or having zero in all of the eight bits, and the test cell confirming device connected to an output line of the ATM switch detects the above described data. In the second aspect, the test cell generating device provided in an input trunk outputs a test cell of a desired band based on a ratio between two optional integers N and n (N.gtoreq.n), the state of a buffer of the ATM switch is monitored, and a load test is conducted to determine whether or not any cell has been destroyed.
Abstract:
A switching path setting system is disposed between an input line connected to switching equipment and a switch. An input interface device allocates a cell to a quality class as tag information corresponding to an identifier of the cell. A quality class buffer stores the cell corresponding to the quality class allocated by the input interface device corresponding to the quality class. A cell is read from the quality class buffer at a band allocated to each quality class.
Abstract:
An ATM transmission system transmits cell-formatted data in an asynchronous transfer mode, and aims at conducting an online path route test in the system. If one path route only is established in the system, then one or more valid cell detecting units for detecting, upon receipt of a cell enable signal indicating that a valid cell to pass through the path route has been sent, the arrival of a valid cell are provided at an optional point including an ATM switch in the path route so that the path route can be partially or entirely validity-checked. If plurality of valid path routes are established, the system provides, in addition to the valid cell detecting units, a virtual path identifier and virtual channel identifier comparing unit for comparing values of the VPI and VCI stored therein with values of a VPI and a VCI added to an arriving cell, and a path route validity check unit for partially or entirely validity-checking a path route in the ATM transmission system.
Abstract:
An in-service activator for a broadband exchanger has a dual system structure, in which a first system and a second system form a dual pair. The first system and the second system in the dual pair each has at least one [1] channel converter and a switcher. A channel converter stores channel setting information for use in routing a cell inputted from a line, and outputs the cell inputted from the line by attaching the channel setting information to the cell. The switcher switches a cell outputted from a channel converter. The interfacer stores, in a channel converter of a to-be-activated standby system in the dual pair, the channel setting information read from the corresponding channel converter of an act system in the duplex pair.
Abstract:
Packets input from input HWs #0 to #3 to a packet switch device are buried in time slots A through D. The packet switch device alternately switches the input packets in units of time slots, and inputs the packets to two 4×4 switches. The 4×4 switches make normal switching, and distribute the packets to respective output ports. Then, the packets output from the two 4×4 switches after being switched are alternately multiplexed, and output to output HWs #0 through #3. By making switching in units of packets as described above, a process overhead is prevented from being increased, and also expansion can be easily made. Besides, hardware scale can be made small.
Abstract:
A plurality of address creators are provided corresponding to a plurality of memories of ALU modules. The address creators create addresses for reading or writing data from the memories each time a connection configuration is switched. In creating addresses in the memories, the address creators enable operations to be set by using various types of parameters and set values by mounting special-purpose hardware for memory ports, so that addresses can be created at high-speed.
Abstract:
A switching apparatus that is used for high-speed large-capacity routing and a communication apparatus and communication system that are used for an efficient recursive multicast. A matrix switch performs self-routing on a packet on the basis of a tag including output route information set in the packet. Selectors are located so as to correspond to N output ports P#1 through P#N of the matrix switch and perform N-to-one selection control. Setting registers hold selection information used by the selectors to select a signal.