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- Patent Title: System interconnect architecture using dynamic bitwise switch and low-latency input/output
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Application No.: US16209597Application Date: 2018-12-04
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Publication No.: US11610040B1Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- Inventor: Barton Quayle , Mitchell G. Poplack
- Applicant: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: G06F30/30
- IPC: G06F30/30 ; G06F30/331 ; G06F30/34 ; G06F30/333

Abstract:
Embodiments disclosed herein describe switching logic in board-level interconnects and in the system-level interconnects that may provide bitwise dynamic routing and switching between corresponding board-level and system-level components. At board-level, a switching ASIC may receive input data through a backplane from an emulation ASIC in a first logic board and route any bit of the input data to any of the emulation ASIC in a second logic board. At system-level, a switching logic board containing a set of switching ASICs may be associated with a logic cluster and may dynamically route data bits from the emulation ASICs in the logic cluster to emulation ASICs to other logic clusters of the emulation system and/or target systems. Additionally, the switching logic board may dynamically route bits from the other logic clusters to the associated logic cluster.
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