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WO2013192633A3
WO2013192633A3 PCT/US2013/049434 US2013049434W WO2013192633A3 WO 2013192633 A3 WO2013192633 A3 WO 2013192633A3 US 2013049434 W US2013049434 W US 2013049434W WO 2013192633 A3 WO2013192633 A3 WO 2013192633A3
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Kimmo Mylly
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Abstract

A memory controller of a mass memory device determining that a memory operation has been initiated which involves the mass memory device, and in response dynamically checks for available processing resources of a host device that is operatively coupled to the mass memory device and thereafter puts at least one of the available processing resources into use for performing the memory operation. In various non-limiting examples: the available processing resources maybe a core engine of a multi-core CPU, a DPS or a graphics processor; central processing unit; a digital signal processor; and a graphics processor; and it may also be dynamically checked whether memory resources of the host are available and those can be similarly put into use (e.g., write data to a DRAM of the host, process data in the DRAM with the host DSP, then write the processed data to the mass memory device).
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