Processing system and method for transmitting data
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsAndrei Radulescu, Kees Gerard Willem Goossens
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Abstract
A method for exchanging data between first and second functional units includes the following steps. In a first handshake procedure, data is exchanged corresponding to a communication thread selected by the first functional unit, while independently in a second handshake procedure, information relating to a status of at least one communication thread is exchanged from the second to the first functional unit. The information enables the first functional unit to anticipate the possibility of exchanging data for the at least one communication thread.
Claims15
A method for exchanging data between a first functional unit and a second functional unit, the method comprising the acts of:
- in a first handshake procedure, exchanging data corresponding to a first communication thread selected by the first functional unit;
- in a second handshake procedure, independent of the first handshake procedure, exchanging information relating to a status of a second communication thread from the second to the first functional unit,
- wherein the information enables the first functional unit to predict exchanging of data the of the second communication thread, and to schedule an order in which transmissions for the first communication thread and the second communication thread should be handled.
A processing system for exchanging data between a first functional unit and a second functional unit corresponding to a first communication thread selected by the first functional unit in a first handshake procedure, while independently exchanging information relating to a status of second communication thread from the second functional unit to the first functional unit in a second handshake procedure, wherein the information enables the first functional unit to predict exchanging of data for the second communication thread and to schedule in which order transmissions for the first and second communication threads should be handled.
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