Patent ID: 11899601
Assignee: BEIJING TENAFE ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method, comprising:
obtaining, at a message receiver in a System On Chip (SOC), a synchronization trigger associated with synchronizing credit;
in response to receiving the synchronization trigger, sending, from the message receiver to a message sender in the SOC, a value for a local credit in the message sender; and
updating, at the message sender, the local credit with the value for the credit that is received from the message receiver, wherein a requirement to send a message from the message sender to the message receiver is that the local credit has a non-zero value, wherein:
obtaining the synchronization trigger includes enabling, at the message receiver, the synchronization trigger during initialization of the message receiver; and
the message receiver is included in a hardware functional module in the SOC.