发明名称 |
Method and circuit for communication between a module and a bus controller in a wafer-scale integrated circuit system |
摘要 |
A fault-tolerant, high-speed wafer scale system comprises a plurality of functional modules, a parallel hierarchical bus which is fault-tolerant to defects in an interconnect network, and one or more bus masters. This bus includes a plurality of bus lines segmented into sections and linked together by programmable bus switches and bus transceivers or repeaters in an interconnect network. By: 1) use of small block size (512K bit) for the memory modules; 2) use of programmable identification register to facilitate dynamic address mapping and relatively easy incorporation of global redundancy; 3) Use of a grid structure for the bus to provide global redundancy for the interconnect network; 4) Use of a relatively narrow bus consisting of 13 signal lines to keep the total area occupied by the bus small; 5) Use of segmented bus lines connected by programmable switches and of bus defects; 6) use of special circuit for bus transceivers and asynchronous handshakes to facilitate dynamic bus configuration; 7) use of programmable control register to facilitate run-time bus reconfiguration; 8) Use of spare bus lines to provide local redundancy for the bus; and 9) Use of spare rows and columns in the memory module to provide local redundancy, high defect tolerance in the hierarchical bus is obtained. |
申请公布号 |
US5613077(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1997.03.18 |
申请号 |
US19940307496 |
申请日期 |
1994.09.14 |
申请人 |
MONOLITHIC SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY, INC. |
发明人 |
LEUNG, WING Y.;HSU, FU-CHIEH |
分类号 |
G06F12/16;G06F11/00;G06F11/10;G06F11/20;G06F12/06;G06F13/00;G06F13/40;G11C29/00;G11C29/04;G11C29/48;H01L21/66;H01L27/02;H04L5/14;H04L25/02;(IPC1-7):G06F13/00 |
主分类号 |
G06F12/16 |
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