Software bus

A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.

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software bus

A programming interface that allows software modules to transfer data to each other. Although "bus" is traditionally a hardware term for an interconnecting pathway, it is occasionally used in this manner when the focus is on internally transferring large amounts of data from one process to another. See bus.

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