Circuit and method for pipelined insertion

An integrated circuit chip comprising:

• a data source;
• a data target;
• a segmented data line between said data source and said data target;
• a data transmitter connected to said data source and to a first segment of said segmented data line, wherein said data transmitter is adapted to prepared data from said data source for transmission along said segmented data line;
• at least one data propagator connected to said first segment of said segmented data line and to a second segment of said segmented data line, wherein said data propagator is adapted to send a data receipt acknowledgement to said data transmitter and to propagate said data along said second segment of said segmented data line, such that said first segment of said segmented data line carries a first data portion and said second segment of said segmented data line simultaneously carries a second data portion;
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• a data receiver connected to said second segment of said segmented data line and to said data target, wherein said data receiver is adapted to prepare data from said second segment of said segmented data for receipt by said data target.

An integrated circuit chip comprising:

• a data source;
• a data target;
• a segmented data line between said data source and said data target;
• a data transmitter connected to said data source and to a first segment of said segmented data line;
• at least one data propagator connected to said first segment of said segmented data line and to a second segment of said segmented data line, wherein said data propagator is adapted to send a data receipt acknowledgement to said data transmitter and to propagate said data along said second segments of said segmented data line, such that said first segment of said segmented data line carries a first data portion and said second segment of said segmented data line simultaneously carries a second data portion;
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• a data receiver connected to said second segment of said segmented data line and to said data target.

A method of transmitting data on an integrated circuit chip, said method comprising:

• breaking a single data transmission into different data portions, wherein said different data portions include a first data portion and a second data portion;
• propagating said first data portion along a first segment of a segmented data line;
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• propagating said first data portion along a second segment of said segmented data line and simultaneously propagating said second data portion along said first segment of said segmented data line;
• and
• reassembling said different data portions back into said single data transmission after all of said different data portions have been individually transmitted along all portions of said segmented data line.