Unit and method for distributing and processing data packets
AssigneeInfineon Technologies AG
InventorXiaoning Nie
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Abstract
A unit for distributing and processing data packets has an administration unit for distributing the data packets to parallel-connected processor units. In this case, the processors of adjacent processor units have intermediate connections for interchanging data. The administration unit distributes the data packets in dependence on administration information for the data packets and/or on operating information for the processor units.
Claims32
A unit for distributing and processing data packets, comprising:
- a data bus;
- parallel-connected processor units for processing the data packets, said processor units having processors with each of said processor units having one processor and a connection to said data bus being a jointly used data bus, said processors of adjacent ones of said processor units having additional intermediate connections for interchanging data between said processor units;
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- at least one administration unit coupled to said processor units and distributing the data packets to said processor units in dependence on at least one of administration information stored in the data packets and on operating information of said processor units, said processor units transmitting the operating information.
A method for distributing data packets to parallel-connected processor units each having a processor, and for processing the data packets by the processors, which comprises the steps of:
- reading administration information stored in the data packets;
- distributing the data packets to the processor units in dependence on at least one of the administration information of the data packets and on operating information of the processor units;
- interchanging of data between processors of adjacent processor units in dependence on the operating information for the processor units under consideration;
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- processing of the data by the processors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.