Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi
Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi
Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi
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Æthereal<br />
• Developed by Philips<br />
• Synchronous indirect network<br />
• WH switching<br />
• Contention-free source routing based on TDM<br />
• GT as well as BE QoS<br />
• GT slots can be allocated statically at initialization phase,<br />
or dynamically at runtime<br />
• BE traffic makes use of non-reserved slots, and any<br />
unused reserved slots<br />
• also used to program GT slots of the routers<br />
• Link-to-link credit-based flow control scheme between BE<br />
buffers<br />
• to avoid loss of flits due to buffer overflow