PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING A FIRST PROCESSING UNIT AND A SECOND PROCESSING UNIT

摘要

A processing apparatus (10), comprising at least a first processing unit (12) and a second processing unit (14), is proposed. The first processing unit (12) comprises a set of first stateful elements (18), the second processing unit (14) comprises a set of second stateful elements (20). A set of synchronization data lines (34) may connect the first stateful elements (18) to the second stateful elements (20) in a pairwise manner. A control unit (16) may control the first processing unit (12), the second processing unit (14) and the synchronization data lines (34) so as to copy the states of the first stateful elements (18) in parallel via the synchronization data lines (34) to the second stateful elements (20) in response to a synchronization request. A method of synchronizing the processing units is also proposed.