PROCESSING WIRELESS AND BROADBAND SIGNALS USING RESOURCE SHARING
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1. A system comprising:
- a plurality of interconnected processing elements, the processing elements configured to pseudo-simultaneously packetize data for permutations of wireless and broadband standards and to accept timestamps associated with a plurality of input data streams; and
wherein the plurality of processing elements use the timestamps to generate the packetize data to remove jitter and/or to schedule movement of the packetize data about a network.
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Abstract
Methods and structures are described for processing signals formatted according to a plurality of different wireless and broadband standards. In some embodiments, network resources are shared to enable energy efficient, pseudo-simultaneous processing. In some embodiments, a timestamp is prepended to input data to remove jitter associated with time division multiplexed processing using shared resources. Systems according to embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.
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30 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a plurality of interconnected processing elements, the processing elements configured to pseudo-simultaneously packetize data for permutations of wireless and broadband standards and to accept timestamps associated with a plurality of input data streams; and wherein the plurality of processing elements use the timestamps to generate the packetize data to remove jitter and/or to schedule movement of the packetize data about a network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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launching physical data packets onto a network fabric comprising a plurality of configurable processing elements, the processing elements adapted to pseudo-simultaneously packetize signals formatted to a plurality of different wireless and broadband standards using time division processing; extracting timestamps associated with signals formatted to the plurality of different wireless and broadband standards to generate corresponding packetized outputs; processing logical data packets associated with the physical data packets, the physical packets interleaved using the timestamps; and reassembling the logical packets to form processed physical packets for launching back onto the network fabric. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A signal processor comprising;
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a data processing engine coupled to receive data packets from a first shared resource, the data packets associated with a combination of at least two wireless and broadband signals generated according to different transmission protocols; a time stamp memory configured to store timestamps associated with each of the two wireless and broadband signals; and wherein an the data processing engine is configured to provide a packetized output to a second shared resource, the output based on the combination of the at least two wireless and broadband signals. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A machine-readable medium having machine-executable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:
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converting a first set of logical packets to a first set of physical packets; routing the first set of physical packets to a logical processing unit configured to pseudo-simultaneously process a plurality of differently formatted wireless and broadband signals; converting the first set of physical packets to a second set of logical packets; performing a logical operation on the second set of logical packets using timestamps associated with the first set of logical packets and an algorithm selected to transform one of the plurality of differently formatted wireless and broadband signals; and packetizing the output for transmission to another logical processing unit using a shared interconnect structure. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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