An Architecture and an Interconnection Scheme for Time-Sliced Buses

Abstract This paper describes an interconnection scheme based on a bus network consisting of high-speed time-sliced buses and interbus links of matching bandwidths. Simulation results and two contrasting approaches to simulating such a machine are discussed. The network is best applied to problems which exhibit locality in their communication patterns (e.g., image processing).

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