Communication system
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorKiyoshi SHINOMIYA
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Abstract
In the present invention, a first communication device, on the basis of a portion of a first command inputted from an external device, predicts an address and instruction contents for the first command, and outputs the same as a second command. The first communication device outputs first flag information indicating whether a second communication device needs to wait to send the second command, and sends the second command and the first flag information to the second communication device. The second communication device receives the second command and the first flag information, and, if the first flag information indicates that the second communication device does not need to wait to send the second command, sends the second command to a second external device.
Claims15
A communication system comprising:
- a first external device;
- a second external device;
- a first communication device;
- and a second communication device, wherein
- the first communication device includes a command prediction unit and a first communication processing unit,
- the command prediction unit predicts an address and instruction content in a first command from a part of the first command having been input from the first external device, outputs, as a second command, the address and the instruction content having been predicted, and
- outputs first flag information indicating whether the second communication device needs to wait for transmission of the second command,
- the first communication processing unit transmits the second command and the first flag information to the second communication device,
- the second communication device includes a second communication processing unit, and
- the second communication processing unit
- receives the second command and the first flag information, and
- transmits the second command to the second external device when the first flag information indicates that the second communication device does not need to wait for transmission of the second command.
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