Patent ID: 9590813
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: configuring each port of each of a plurality of nodes of a Network on Chip (NoC) with a filter in a form of a filter bit vector representing a multicast tree from one or more multicast trees of the NoC, wherein each bit of the filter bit-vector is indicative of whether a corresponding destination bit from a destination bit-vector of a multicast message is to be filtered, and configuring each of the plurality of nodes of the NoC to execute a process for receipt of the multicast message, the process comprising: selecting a port configured with a filter representing the multicast tree from the one or more multicast trees directed to the received multicast message, the selecting conducted based on an application of logic between a destination bit-vector of the multicast message and the filter bit-vector; and transmitting the multicast message through the selected port.