Design for an Efficient Architecture for a Reflective Memory System and its Implementation

  • Baek, Il-Joo (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Shin, Soo-Young (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi, Jae-Young (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Tae-Rim (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kwon, Wook-Hyun (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2003.10.22

Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient network architecture for reflective memory system (RMS). Using this architecture, the time for broadcasting a shared-data to all nodes can be significantly shortened. The device named topology conversion switch (TCS) is implemented to realize the network architecture. The implemented TCS is applied to the ethernet based real time control network (ERCnet) to evaluate the performance.

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