A bus system for a computer having multiple agents provides a mechanism for unilaterally and dynamically limiting the pipelining depth. Each agent includes a state machine which indicates whether the bus is in a throttled state, a stalled state or a free state. When in a free state, an agent ...http://www.google.fr/patents/US5761449?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US5761449 - Bus system providing dynamic control of pipeline depth for a multi-agent computer
Bus system providing dynamic control of pipeline depth for a multi-agent ...