Package uk.ac.manchester.spinnaker.alloc.bmp

Interface TransceiverFactoryAPI<T extends BMPTransceiverInterface>

Type Parameters:

T - The actual type of transceiver produced.

All Known Implementing Classes:

TransceiverFactory

public interface TransceiverFactoryAPI<T extends BMPTransceiverInterface>

Creates transceivers for talking to the BMPs of machines. Note that each machine only has the one BMP that is talked to, and only ever one transceiver that is used to do it.

Author:

Donal Fellows

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
T	getTransciever(SpallocAPI.Machine machineDescription, BMPCoords bmp)	Get the transceiver for talking to a given machine's BMPs.

Method Details

getTransciever

T getTransciever(SpallocAPI.Machine machineDescription, BMPCoords bmp) throws IOException, SpinnmanException, InterruptedException

Get the transceiver for talking to a given machine's BMPs.

Parameters:

machineDescription - The machine we're talking about.

bmp - Which BMP on the machine are we talking to.

Returns:

The transceiver. Only operations relating to BMPs are required to be supported.

Throws:

IOException - If low-level things go wrong.

SpinnmanException - If the transceiver can't be built.

InterruptedException - If the communications were interrupted.