REQUIREMENT-MULTITHREADED MULTIMEDIA PROCESSOR Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC G06F9/38 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: device has a multimedia processor which can simultaneously support multiple applications for different types of multimedia such as graphics, audio, video, camera, games etc. The multimedia processor has configurable memory resources for storing instructions, data and status information of the applications, as well as assigned processing elements for performing different types of processing for applications. The configurable memory resources can include an instruction cache for storing application instructions, a block of registers for storing data for applications, context registers for storing status information for application streams etc. Processing elements can include an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a kernel of elementary functions, a logical kernel, a texture modulator, a load control unit, an execution controller etc. The multimedia processor allocates the configurable region of memory resources to each application and dynamically allocates processing elements for applications according to requests of these applications.

EFFECT: possibility of simultaneous support of multiple multimedia applications.

31 cl, 10 dwg