Q, LLC

Technicolor Digital Cinema LLC

Vijaya Kumar Janjanam

Lucian Codrescu

Erich Plondke

Muhammad Ahmed

Christopher Rudolf Wingert

Jesse Hose

Carl Andrew Mueller

An apparatus and method for loading media in a digital cinema system is described. Specifically, the digital cinema system has a received storage medium and a local storage medium. A user is prompted to present the received storage medium. Responsive to the user specifying the received storage medium, a list of image programs is displayed. Responsive to the user specifying the image program, a list of audio programs is displayed. Responsive to the user specifying the audio program, how much storage space is required to store the selected image program and audio program on the local storage medium is determined. If the storage space required on the local storage medium is insufficient to load the selected image and audio programs, a warning indicative of insufficient storage space is displayed. Each selected program is then authenticated.

Apparatus and method for loading media in a digital cinema system

A method and system to indicate which page within a software-managed page table triggers an exception within a microprocessor, such as, for example, a digital signal processor, wherein a software-managed translation lookaside buffer (TLB) module receives a virtual address produced by an instruction within a Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) packet, such as, for example, a fetch instruction, and further compares the virtual address to each stored TLB entry. If a match exists, then the TLB module outputs a corresponding mapped physical address for the instruction. Otherwise, if the VLIW packet spans two pages, where a first page is present as a TLB entry within the TLB module and the second page is missing from the stored TLB entries, an indication bit within a data field of a control register is set to identify the TLB miss exception to a software management unit. The software management unit retrieves the indication bit information from the register and further performs a page table look-up within the software-managed page table using the indication bit information in order to retrieve the missing page information. Subsequently, the missing page information is written into a new TLB entry within the TLB module for subsequent virtual address translation and execution of the packet of instructions.

Method and system to indicate an exception-triggering page within a microprocessor

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Vijaya Kumar Janjanam