Communication Technology

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Communication Technology

Computer System Communications

Backplane Bus

Synchronous Locally Timed Bus Lines

Clock Timing on a Synchronous Bus

Bus Write Transaction

Multiplexed Bus Write Transaction

Multiplexed Bus Read Transaction

Block-Transfer Write Transaction

Block-Transfer Read Transaction

Bus Arbitration

Generalized Communication

Topologies: Graphs and Crossbars

Topologies: Rings and Buses

Topologies: Meshes

Topologies: Trees

Topologies: Hypercubes

Theoretical Latency of Topologies

Real Latencies of Topologies

Next Time: Instruction-Level Parallelism

Author: Srinivas Devadas

Email: devadas@mit.edu

Home Page: http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/6.004

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