Software-defined radio support in sequestered partitions
US8391913B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 18, 2007 |
| Grant date | Mar 5, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 18, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/5077
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A software-defined radio (SDR) capability may be provided in a general purpose, many core processing system by sequestering one or more partitions running on one or more cores and instantiating a communications capability by having discrete SDR functions performed by the sequestered partitions. Each SDR module embodied in a sequestered partition may be independently upgraded without modifying the hardware of the underlying processing system. By executing SDR modules in cores not accessible by application programs and/or an operating system (OS), a better Quality of Service (QoS) may be provided for wireless communications on the general purpose, multi-core processing system. An embodiment comprises isolating a core of a many core processing system as a sequestered partition, loading a software-defined radio module onto the core, and executing the software-defined module to implement wireless communications.
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