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Flow Control

IEEE 1355 links use a credit based flow control scheme that works on a per link basis. HS-Link use the same flow-control mechanism as DS-Links, the only difference being that the flow control unit size, or flit, has been increased from 8 to 32 characters.



Stefan Haas
Tue Mar 31 11:54:08 MET DST 1998