| 摘要 |
A router comprising a plurality of routing nodes interconnected by a plurality of communications links in a multi-dimensional pattern for transferring messages, each message including an address including a series of address digits each associated with one of the series of dimensions. Each router node includes a switch circuit for selectively coupling messages, received from a communications link associated with a dimension, over a communications link associated with a dimension in accordance with the address. The switch circuit includes a series of message coupling circuits each associated with a dimension, each message coupling circuit being connected to receive messages from a communications link associated with a preceding dimension and to transmit messages over the communications link of the associated dimension, each message coupling circuit further being connected to the message coupling circuits of proximate dimensions. Each message coupling circuit selectively either transmits a message over the communications link or to the message coupling circuit of a proximate dimension in response to the condition of the address digit associated with the dimension.
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