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Method and apparatus for designing a communication mechanism between embedded cable modem and embedded set-top box
Method and apparatus for designing a communication mechanism between embedded cable modem and embedded set-top box
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机译:用于设计嵌入式电缆调制解调器和嵌入式机顶盒之间的通信机制的方法和装置
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The present disclosure discloses a digital communication between the embedded cable modem (eCM) and embedded set-top box (eSTB) via a shared memory. The communication is carried out by packet transfer mechanism as per the protocol without adding any extra header overhead. The communication link is established between the eSTB and eCM mainly in layer 2 and partly in layer 1 according to an implementation of the OSI model. Further, eSTB is used as an eSAFE device coupled to eCM where the eCM and eSTB are considered to be placed on two SoCs with a separate CPU to each SoC (System-On-Chip) with a shared memory (via high speed data bus protocol). DMA (Direct Memory Access) engines are used to accelerate data transfer and to reduce load. DMA of only eCM, SoC is used to minimize hardware resources.
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