COMMUNICATION USING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECT CIRCUITRY

摘要

An integrated circuit comprising multiple master units (4, 6) and multiple slave units (10, 12) connected via interconnect circuitry (8) utilises token based node-to-node communication flow management within the interconnect circuitry (8) with a network node requesting a token and receiving a token signal before it asserts its communication signals onto a physical communication link shared between multiple virtual networks.