Patent ID: 7082515

Claim:
A data driven type information processing apparatus, comprising: a self-synchronous transfer control circuit controlling by a transfer request signal and a transfer acknowledge signal transfer and operating processes of a data packet including at least a destination node number, a generation number, an instruction code and data; at least one pipeline register controlled by said self-synchronous transfer control circuit, for storing said data packet; an input/output control circuit controlling whether said data packet is to be circulated inside said information processing apparatus or output externally from said information processing apparatus; and a data packet erasing circuit erasing a data packet stored in said at least one of said pipeline registers and outputting other data packets to the outside from said information processing apparatus wherein said data packet erasing circuit includes a master reset input for erasing at least one data packet, adds a new host transfer flag to said data packet, and erases said data packet in accordance with master reset information.