Abstract: A data integrity system comprising a plurality of units connected together for the transfer of data between the units. Each said unit comprises data means for receiving data from one or more other units and/or transmitting data to one or more other units, first means, if the unit transmits data to other units, for generating a PARITY OUT signal indicating the parity of all data transmitted to the other units and second means, if the unit is to receive data from other units, for generating a PARITY IN signal indicating the parity of all data being received by the unit from the other units. A third means, located in one of said plurality of units, receives all the PARITY OUT signals and all the PARITY IN signals generated by the plurality of units and detects from all the received PARITY IN signals and all the PARITY OUT signals whether an error had occurred during the transfer of data between the units.

Abstract: A processing system comprising a first means for generating first signals indicating when the next instruction can begin processing where eight or less bytes are processed by the MOVE, PACK or UNPACK instruction, a second means for generating second signals if an overlap condition exists for the MOVE, PACK or UNPACK instruction being processed, and where the first means generates the first signals prior to the second means generating the second signals and independent of whether the second means generates the second signals.

Abstract: An error recovery system used in a pipeline architecture type computer system for recovering from an error in a control word for an instruction without interrupting the sequence of processing control words by the computer system. The computer system processes instructions in a sequence of overlapping FLOWs where each FLOW is comprised of a sequence of cycles. An instruction control word is processed in each cycle of each FLOW. The error recovery system comprises a first storage for storing, for a given cycle of a FLOW, all the control words for all the instructions, a second storage for storing a control word read from the first storage and an error recovery logic for detecting an error in the control word read from the first storage and stored in the second storage and for correcting the error in the control word in the first and second storage.