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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2001
Keith Rieken, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joel D. Medlock, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David M. Holmes, Cupertino, CA (US);
Keith Rieken, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joel D. Medlock, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David M. Holmes, Cupertino, CA (US);
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, DE;
Abstract
A method for designing a time-sliced and multi-threaded architecture comprises the steps of conducting a thorough analysis of a range of applications and building a specific processor to accommodate the range of applications. In one embodiment, the thorough analysis includes extracting real time aspects from each application, determining optimal granularity in the architecture based on the real time aspects of each application, and adjusting the optimal granularity based on acceptable context switching overhead.