MULTIPLE CORE SYSTEM
First Claim
1. An integrated circuit comprising:
- a packet switch having an optical transceiver, a first carrierless ultra wideband (UWB) radio frequency (RF) transceiver, and a packet processor which communicates data packets between the optical transceiver and the first carrierless UWB RF transceiver; and
a first module which communicates via carrierless UWB RF signaling with the first carrierless UWB RF transceiver.
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Abstract
An integrated circuit has a group of cores that communicate with a packet switch using carrierless ultra wideband (UWB) radio frequency (RF) signaling. The packet switch communicates outside the integrated circuit using optical signaling. The carrierless UWB provides for high frequency communication and processing without requiring additional space for interconnects. No special paths are necessary because the signals used by the cores for communicating with the packet switch are RF signals therefore they can be broadcast by the packet switch and be received by a plurality of cores. No conductor line or waveguide is required. Because the signals are carrierless, they can be transmitted with low power. With multiple cores providing information to the switch, the total information being received may exceed the capacity of the RF bandwidth so an external optical interface is provided to multiplex information provided via carrierless UWB RF signals by a plurality of cores.
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20 Claims
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1. An integrated circuit comprising:
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a packet switch having an optical transceiver, a first carrierless ultra wideband (UWB) radio frequency (RF) transceiver, and a packet processor which communicates data packets between the optical transceiver and the first carrierless UWB RF transceiver; and a first module which communicates via carrierless UWB RF signaling with the first carrierless UWB RF transceiver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An integrated circuit, comprising:
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a packet switch having an optical transceiver, a plurality of carrierless ultra wideband (UWB) radio frequency (RF) transceivers, and a packet processor which translates carrierless UWB RF data packets received via the plurality of carrierless UWB RF transceivers to optical data packets to be output by the optical transceiver and translates optical data packets received via the optical transceiver to carrierless UWB RF data packets to be output by one or more of the plurality of carrierless UWB RF transceivers; and a plurality of processor cores, wherein each processor core communicates carrierless UWB RF data packets with a corresponding one of the plurality of carrierless UWB RF transceivers. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method comprising:
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providing, by a first module located on an integrated circuit, a first plurality of carrierless UWB RF data packets to a first carrierless UWB RF transceiver; translating, by a packet processor located on the integrated circuit and coupled to the first carrierless UWB RF transceiver, the first plurality of carrierless UWB RF data packets into a first plurality of optical data packets; and communicating the first plurality of optical data packets external to the integrated circuit via an optical transceiver coupled to the packet processor. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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