US 7,380,100 B2Granted

Data processing system and control method utilizing a plurality of date transfer means

AssigneeIpflex Inc.

InventorsHiroshi Shimura, Kenji Ikeda, Tomoyoshi Sato

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Abstract

The present invention provides a data processing system that includes a plurality of processing units and first, second, and third data transfer means. The first data transfer means connects a plurality of processing units in a network, exchanges first data, and configures at least one reconfigurable data flow by connecting at least two of the plurality of processing units. The second data transfer means supplies control information that loads setting data as second data to the plurality of processing units in parallel. The third data transfer means supplies the setting data to each of the plurality of the processing units individually. Setting data is data for setting a data flow with a different function by directly or indirectly changing other processing unit connected to a processing unit via the first data transfer means, and/or changing a process included in the processing unit.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A data processing system, comprising:

a plurality of processing units;
first data transfer circuits for connecting the plurality of processing units in a network, exchanging first data, and configuring at least one reconfigurable data flow by connecting at least two of the plurality of processing units;
second data transfer circuits that are different from the first data transfer circuits for supplying, independently of the first data transfer circuits, second data to each of the plurality of processing units in parallel from a control apparatus;
and
third data transfer circuits that are different from the first and second data transfer circuits, for supplying, independently of the first and second data transfer circuits, setting data to each of the plurality of processing units individually from a network setting memory, the setting data being data for setting a data flow, corresponding to a function, by changing a set of connections between processing units of the plurality of processing units connected with the first data transfer circuits, or by changing a process included in the processing units,
wherein the network setting memory stores sets of setting data and identification information for each of the plurality of processing units, the identification information identifying the processing units connected by the first data transfer circuits for configuring a particular data flow, the third data transfer circuits supplying the identification information together with the setting data,
wherein the control apparatus issues control information with the identification information as the second data for controlling operation of the processing units, and
wherein each of the plurality of processing units includes a control unit that operates based on the second data, wherein the second data is selected based on the identification information supplied via the third data transfer circuits.

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A control method for a data processing system, wherein the data processing system includes a plurality of processing units, first data transfer circuits for connecting the plurality of processing units in a network, exchanging first data, and configuring at least one reconfigurable data flow by connecting at least two of the plurality of processing units, second data transfer circuits that are different from the first data transfer circuits for supplying, independently of the first data transfer circuits, second data to the plurality of processing units in parallel from a control apparatus, and third data transfer circuits that are different from the first and second data transfer circuits, for supplying, independently of the first and second data transfer circuits, setting data to each of the plurality of processing units individually from a network setting memory, the setting data being data for setting a data flow, corresponding to a function, by changing a set of connections between processing units of the plurality of processing units connected with the first data transfer circuits or by changing a process included in the processing units, wherein the network setting memory stores sets of setting data and identification information for each of the plurality of processing units, the identification information identifying the processing units connected by the first data transfer circuits for configuring the data flow,

the control method comprising:
supplying, via the third data transfer circuits, the identification information and together with the setting data;
and
issuing, from the control apparatus, control information with the identification information as the second data via the second data transfer circuits, and operating a control unit included in each of the plurality of processing units according to the second data selected, based on the identification information that is supplied via the third data transfer circuits or the identification information that has been previously supplied.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.