High performance communications interface for multiplexing a plurality of computers to a high performance point to point communications bus

US5222216A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Thinking Machines, LLC · US

Inventors

• Edward C. Parish · North Reading, US
• Robert A. Doolittle · Menlo Park, US
• Sharon E. Gillett · Watertown, US
• Thomas Moser · Wiesloch, DE
• William A. Nesheim · Windham, US
• David L. Satterfield · Everett, US
• James P. Tardiff · Framingham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 12, 1991
• Grant date: Jun 22, 1993
• Expiry date: Jul 12, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F13/4022
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A high performance communications interface device for connecting a high speed computer to a high performance communications bus. The high performance communications interface device includes a high performance communications interface device processor, a source interface, a destination interface and at least one I/O processor which controls the transfer of data to the high speed computer from the high performance communications bus and from the high speed computer to the high performance communications bus.