Links, Ports, and Wires

The Lyrtech edition of Diamond uses the same communication model as implementations on other hardware. However, at the hardware level, Lyrtech boards use a wide variety of techniques to communicate between processors. No matter what techniques are used in particular cases, Diamond sees each processor as possessing a number of communication links. Communication takes place between pairs of these links connected by what we refer to as wires. Regardless of the underlying hardware, you can use Diamond’s links and wires in the same way.

The word port, unadorned, has a different meaning, which is discussed in Ports and Channels.