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emt

A bus is essentially a communication channel connecting the different processors and allows signals to be sent to other processors. An atomic bus allows only one channel at a time to send a message, but everyone connected to the bus can see the message.

mak

Shared bus is one of the ways to implement interconnect. What are the other ways ?

ykt

I can think of point to point connections, crossbar switches and fat tree topology