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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2011
Uwe Pross, Chemnitz, DE;
Tobias Weber, Limbach-Oberfrohna, DE;
Gunnar Nitsche, Radebeul, DE;
Thomas Fliess, Dresden, DE;
Uwe Pross, Chemnitz, DE;
Tobias Weber, Limbach-Oberfrohna, DE;
Gunnar Nitsche, Radebeul, DE;
Thomas Fliess, Dresden, DE;
Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden GmbH, Dresden, DE;
Abstract
A hardware accelerator module is driven by a system processor via a system bus to sequentially process data blocks of a data stream as a function of a parameter set defined by the processor. The module includes a register block adapted to receive parameter sets from the system processor, an accelerator core adapted to receive streaming data, to process data blocks of said streaming data in a manner defined by a parameter set, and to output processed streaming data, and a parameter buffering block adapted to consecutively store a plurality of parameter sets and to sequentially provide the parameter sets to the hardware accelerator core as a function of a busy state of the hardware accelerator core. The parameter buffering block enables to reduce downtimes of hardware accelerators, to increase data throughput, and to reduce the risk of a processor overload in a processor which drives several hardware accelerators.