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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2012
Tommi Juhani Zetterman, Espoo, FI;
Kalle August Raiskila, Nukari, FI;
Harri Hirvola, Espoo, FI;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments of the invention are disclosed for efficient communication between processor units in a multi-core processor integrated circuit architecture. In example embodiments of the invention, a method comprises: storing with a shared inter-core communication unit in a multi-core processor, first data produced by a producer processor core, in a first token memory located at a first memory address of a memory address space; and connecting with the shared inter-core communication unit, the first token memory to a consumer processor core of the multi-core processor, to load the first data from the first token memory into the consumer processor core, in response to a first-type command from the producer processor core.