Patent ID: 6839357

Claim:
A transmission system comprising at least a transmitter and a receiver, the receiver comprising calculation modules designed for communicating with each other via an interconnection network comprising a forward path and a return path, the network serving to realize unidirectional local communications between mutually neighboring calculation modules in the forward path and the return path and unidirectional global communications between non-neighboring calculation modules; wherein the local and global communications are realized by means of a programmable sequence of interconnection cells, each interconnection cell connected to at least one calculation module, referred to as current module, and the interconnection cells comprise: multiplexing means which are connected to neighboring cells for multiplexing data originating from different modules in the forward path and the return path; and memory means for storing data traversing between two non-neighboring modules situated at least in the forward path or in the return path, the memory means connected to the respective multiplexing means upstream and downstream of the current module such that the data pass through at most two neighboring cells in one calculation cycle.