Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for packeting time-synchronous data during transmission in a packet data network. Several time-synchronous links exist in said packet data network, for which data packets are periodically sent in a recurrent manner. According to the invention, the beginning of data transmission of a link is selected in such a way that the data packets of various links are distributed in relation to time in an evenly distributed manner as possible. If transmission links with said distributed data packets are combined to form a transmission link, said data packets are subject to little or no delay.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multiprocessor system, which comprises memory elements, input/output units and a central bus system, whereby the input/output units access the memory elements via the central bus system, using direct memory access. Said system is equipped with a bus observation element, which during the read/write access by an input/output unit to a memory element via the central bus system monitors and evaluates the memory addresses that have been generated by the input/output unit and uses said addresses to generate interrupts in individual processors. This allows the computing capacity to be increased during the parallel processing of tasks.