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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2008
Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, TX (US);
Charles F. Marino, Round Rock, TX (US);
William J. Starke, Round Rock, TX (US);
Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, TX (US);
Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, TX (US);
Charles F. Marino, Round Rock, TX (US);
William J. Starke, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A heterogeneous processing element model is provided where I/O devices look and act like processors. In order to be treated like a processor, an I/O processing element, or other special purpose processing element, must follow some rules and have some characteristics of a processor, such as address translation, security, interrupt handling, and exception processing, for example. The heterogeneous processing element model puts special purpose processing elements on the same playing field as processors, from a programming perspective, operating system perspective, and power perspective. The operating system can get work to a security engine, for example, in the same way it does to a processor.