Super Talent Electronics, Inc.

Mstar Semiconductor, Inc.

Digital Video Systems, Inc.

I-pieng Peter Kao

Charles Chung Lee

Horng-Yee Chou

Sun-Teck See

Jack Benkual

A critical phase of video processing is the decoding of bit streams coming from standard based heavy compressed sources. Entropy coding can be effectively decoded by adopting parallelism to speed up the process. Reasonable assumptions make possible for example the multiple bits at a time processing for the Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) algorithm. In particular, a clever arithmetic section reduces single propagation for the timing critical path while decoding done for only two sequence elements at a time by calculating and maintaining most probable bit values. This in turn making accelerated path using pre-determined probability outcome through parallelism not cost.

2-bin parallel decoder for advanced video processing

A PCI Express-compatible flash device can include one or more flash memory modules, a controller, and an ExpressCard interface. The controller can advantageously provide PCI Express functionality as well as flash memory operations, e.g. writing, reading, or erasing, using the ExpressCard interface. A PIO interface includes sending first and second memory request packets to the flash device. The first memory request packet includes a command word setting that prepares the flash device for the desired operation. The second memory request packet triggers the operation and includes a data payload, if needed. A DMA interface includes sending the second memory request from the flash device to the host, thereby triggering the host to release the system bus for the DMA operation.

PCI express-compatible controller and interface that provides PCI express functionality and flash memory operations to host device

PCI express-compatible controller and interface for flash memory

An intelligent endpoint can provide an automated, centralized boot management for multiple, interconnected computer systems. The intelligent endpoint can be notified of a boot event for one of the computer systems. This notification can occur over a system bus or via a system fabric. The intelligent endpoint can then decide on an appropriate action for the boot event. Notably, the action may affect or depend on a boot of another computer system. The intelligent endpoint can advantageously resolve arbitration issues in a cost- and size-efficient manner. Moreover, the intelligent endpoint can provide significant flexibility during booting.

Boot management in computer systems assisted by an endpoint with PCI-XP or USB-V2 interface

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