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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

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