Patent ID: 8412867

Claim:
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising: a plurality of cores; and an interconnecting network including adaptors connected to each of said cores and a plurality of routers connecting said adaptors to communicate therebetween; wherein said adaptors keep delivery information indicating a delivery condition of a request signal received from said cores and control delivery of said request signal received from said cores in accordance with said delivery information, and wherein each of said adaptors is configured to suspend processing of said request signal in accordance with stored data including whether or not to temporarily stop processing of said request signal; wherein each of said adaptors comprises storage unit that stores filter data including said delivery information indicating a delivery condition of said request signal, which is received from a second core through said adaptors, said request signal being transmitted to a first core connected to said adaptors, to said first core, and including said data indicating whether or not to temporarily stop processing of said request signal; and reception filter unit that when said request signal is received from said second core, refers to said filter data to control delivery of said request signal, that when an instruction to temporarily stop processing of said request signal is received from a third core different from said first core, stops processing of said request signal, and that when new data to update said filter data and an instruction to cancel a temporary stopping of processing of said request signal are received from said third core, updates said filter data into said new data and restarts processing of said request signal.