Title:
TCET EXPANDER
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2004057431
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the field of embedded processing systems and electronic control units (ECUs)and to autonomic embedded computing solutions. The present invention proposes to remove or extract the application-specific support functions and respective I/O subsystems from the main processors or controllers of the system, to include said extracted circuits into a respective number of ASIC chips or the like, and to connect them preferably via a supervising General Controller Unit (12) to a plurality of standard and low-price processors (40), which have the task to supply the ASIC and the multiple functions thereof with enough computing power.
Inventors:
STAIGER DIETER E (DE)
Application Number:
PCT/EP2003/012167
Publication Date:
April 07, 2005
Filing Date:
October 31, 2003
Export Citation:
Assignee:
IBM (US)
IBM DEUTSCHLAND (DE)
STAIGER DIETER E (DE)
IBM DEUTSCHLAND (DE)
STAIGER DIETER E (DE)
International Classes:
B60R16/02; B60R25/10; G05B19/042; H04L29/08; B60W50/00; (IPC1-7): G05B19/042; G05B19/042; B60R16/02; B60R25/10; H04L29/08
Foreign References:
| DE19832531A1 | 2000-02-10 | |||
| US4942571A | 1990-07-17 | |||
| EP1136325A2 | 2001-09-26 | |||
| US5311197A | 1994-05-10 |
Other References:
ZHAO C ET AL: "A multiprocessor-based universal interface for multisensor-based robotic system", COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 1993., IEEE PACIFIC RIM CONFERENCE ON VICTORIA, BC, CANADA 19-21 MAY 1993, NEW YORK, NY, USA,IEEE, vol. 2, 19 May 1993 (1993-05-19), pages 524 - 527, XP010141742, ISBN: 0-7803-0971-5
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