摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chip comprising a flexible and scalable network.SOLUTION: The network includes a plurality of processing engines 105 and a matrix of on-chip routers 110. Each of the on-chip routers 110 is communicatively coupled with a distinct group of the processing engines 105 and with on-chip routers 110 nearest to that on-chip router 110. The on-chip routers 110 include input ports, output ports, and an output port arbiter corresponding to the output ports. The output port arbiter uses a global grant vector shared by all output port arbiters of that on-chip router and a local grant vector unique to that output port arbiter to grant a query request from one of the input ports. |