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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2004
Francis G. Melinn, Shannon Co., IE;
Amit Dhir, San Jose, CA (US);
Francis G. Melinn, Shannon Co., IE;
Amit Dhir, San Jose, CA (US);
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to various embodiments of the present invention, an intelligent framer/mapper integrates the framer, mapper, and the controlling function of the host processor, implemented as either a soft processor or an embedded processor, into a single device, such as a programmable logic device. The use of the soft processor or embedded processors on the device reduces the load on the host processor on the line card. According to some aspects of the invention, the devices takes advantage of an embedded, dedicated processor and/or soft processor(s) to allow for a distributed processing on a single chip.