Hierarchical bus structure and memory access protocol for multiprocessor systems

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PATENT NO 7085866
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10369340

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A hierarchical bus structure is disclosed in which clusters of processors are arranged and interconnected within a hierarchy to facilitate processor communications via shared memories. The bus structure is well suited for voice processing applications in which clusters of embedded processors process voice streams in parallel, although the architecture is not so limited. Also disclosed is a memory access protocol in which the address and data portions of shared-memory access operations are performed as separate bus transactions that are separated in time, such that multiple concurrent memory access operations from different processors may be interleaved over a shared bus.

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NVIDIA CORPORATION2788 SAN TOMAS EXPRESSWAY SANTA CLARA CA 95051

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Dyck, Allan R Port Moody, CA 7 120
Hobson, Richard F Coquitlam, CA 9 152
Ressl, Bill Vancouver, CA 7 120

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