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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2024
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Sriramakrishnan Govindarajan, Bengaluru, IN;
Kishon Vijay Abraham Israel Vijayponraj, Bengaluru, IN;
Mihir Narendra Mody, Bengaluru, IN;
Jason A. T. Jones, Richmond, TX (US);
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A peripheral proxy subsystem provides routing mechanisms to allow multiple hosts to communicate with multiple functions, physical and virtual, of a single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) peripheral, which may include a physical function and a plurality of virtual functions associated with the physical function. The peripheral proxy subsystem, which may be embodied as a controller, includes a first endpoint interface; a second endpoint interface; and a single root controller interface configured to couple to the SR-IOV peripheral. The controller is configured to be able to present through the single root controller interface: a first subset of the plurality of virtual functions through a first cloned instance of the physical function at the first endpoint interface; and a second subset of the plurality of virtual functions through a second cloned instance of the physical function at the second endpoint interface.