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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2008
Bhaskar Chowdhuri, San Diego, CA (US);
Srikanth Shubhakoti, San Dieo, CA (US);
Vinod Ananth, San Diego, CA (US);
Hongyu Xie, San Diego, CA (US);
Shui Cheong Lee, San Diego, CA (US);
Bhaskar Chowdhuri, San Diego, CA (US);
Srikanth Shubhakoti, San Dieo, CA (US);
Vinod Ananth, San Diego, CA (US);
Hongyu Xie, San Diego, CA (US);
Shui Cheong Lee, San Diego, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A media access control (MAC) processor includes a programmable controller and a memory coupled to the programmable controller to store machine readable instructions for implementing MAC functions corresponding to data received by a communication device. A hardware processor is coupled to the programmable controller. The hardware processor includes a processing engine configured to implement MAC functions on the data received by the communication device. The hardware processor additionally includes a context memory coupled to the processing engine to store state information of the processing engine corresponding to one or more contexts, and context switch logic coupled to the processing to determine when the processing engine should switch contexts.