Patent ID: 8538273
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for exchanging information in an on-chip communication network using optical flow information for communication between Intellectual Property cores, comprising: a plurality of initiators and targets included in said Intellectual Property cores, and a router for propagating optical flow information from the initiators to the targets; each initiator comprising an interface to convert the traffic generated by the initiator and transmit it in the form of an optical flow within the on-chip communication network; and each target comprising an interface to convert information from the optical form into the electrical form; a first set of parameters associated with high level functions of the on-chip communication network, which allow specifying the number of the network IP access addresses and the size of the flit messages; a second set of parameters associated with the initiators; a third set of parameters associated with the targets; and a programming module to define said first, second, and third set of parameters.