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Ulllted States Patent [19] [11] Patent Number: 5,963,745 Collins Et Al US005963745A Ulllted States Patent [19] [11] Patent Number: 5,963,745 Collins et al. [45] Date of Patent: Oct. 5, 1999 [54] APAP I/O PROGRAMMABLE ROUTER 0208497 6/1986 European Pat. Off. 208457A2 6/1986 European Pat. Off. [75] Inventors: Clive Allan Collins, Poughkeepsie; _ _ Michael Charles Dapp, EndWell; (L1St Con?rmed 0“ next Page) James Warren Die?'enderfer; David Christopher Kuchinski, both of OTHER PUBLICATIONS OYVegO; Bllly Jack KHOWIEQ KlPgstons CK. Baru and S.Y.W. Su, “The Architecture of SM3: A Rlchard Eelward Nler> Apalachm> an Dynamically Partitionable Multicomputer System”, IEEE (éf biY$PEni{Et‘)lgetn; gi?iiFlivagen Transactions on Computers, vol. C—35, No. 9, pp. 790—802, en er, a.; 0 er els 1c ar son, Sep 1986 gisrtlil’ qigizgrllil?rilg?nlzgg‘zrgest S.P. 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Cl. .................................................... .. ~G061?‘ 15/16 I/O and are interconnected With a hypercube based, but [52] US. Cl. ................................ .. 395/80013, 395/8001, modi?ed, topology‘ These nodes are then interconnected, _ 395/800'12’ 395/800'14 either by a hypercube, modi?ed hypercube, or ring, or ring [58] Fleld of Search ................................... .. 395/800, 820, Within ring network topology The architecture uses an the 395/800~1> 800~12> 800~13> 800~14> 200~68> pins for networking. Each chip has eight 16 bit processors, ZOO-73> ZOO-79> 80011; 364/DIG- 1s BIG 2 and eight respective 32K memories. I/O has three internal _ ports and one external port shared by the plural processors [56] References Clted on the chip. Signi?cant software ?exibility is provided to Us PATENT DOCUMENTS enable quick implementation of existing programs Written in common languages. The scalable chip has internal and 3,537,074 10/1970 Stokes et a1. ......................... .. 340/172 external Connections for broadcast and asynchronous SIMD, FEW}; 6‘ a1- - MIMD and SIMIMD (SIMD/MIMD) With dynamic switch 4’1O1’96O 72978 5:22;: ' 36/4060 ing of modes. A fully distributed programmable router is ’ ’ ' """"""""""""" " provided by the processing memory elements that form a (List continued on next page.) node. There is program compatibility for the fully scalable s stem. FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS y 0132926 2/1985 European Pat. 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