Patent ID: 6769046
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A system resource router, comprising:at least two channel sockets that provides for protocol-based connections to external data-transfer initiators; at least two internal M-channel buses; one or more M-channel controllers, wherein each said M-channel controllers connects one of a plurality of external M-channel busses to a corresponding one of the internal M-channel buses; and one or more transfer switches, wherein each said transfer switch provides alternative connections of at least one of the channel sockets to at least two of the internal M-channel buses; wherein, a plurality of processors and other initiators respectively connected to the channel sockets can be routed with the transfer switch to operate in parallel with a plurality of peripherals and memory respectively populating said external M-channel buses; and wherein the variety of numbers of interconnected ones of said channel sockets, said internal M-channel buses, said M-channel controllers, and said transfer switches are determined using a computer-aided design (CAD) program means.