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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2003
Murat Karaorman, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Murat Karaorman, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a system comprises a processor that executes an algorithm. Coupled to the processor is memory that stores the algorithm. In addition, the system comprises a hardware unit that is generally not accessible to the algorithm and an abstraction layer that indirectly facilitates interaction between the hardware unit and the algorithm. The hardware unit comprises one or more physical resources, such as data channels, that are associated by the abstraction layer with a logical resource. In addition, the abstraction layer creates an identifier to the logical resource that may be used by the algorithm. Associated with the identifier is a private state that represents the most recently configured settings of the logical resource. A vector table is used in conjugation with the private state to identify memory locations of optimized command functions that carry out operations associated with the hardware unit. In addition, the vector table is adapted to reflect the run-time state of the system.