Described herein are methods and system for virtualization of the secure digital (SD) host controller to enable sharing a SD device among various multiple host processors in a multi-processor computing system. In one implementation the method of sharing a SD device amongst a plurality of hosts of a multi-host comput...

Described herein is a multi-host computing system (200) having multiple host processors running different operating systems. The described multi-host computing system (200) comprises a multi-host NAND flash controller (202) to allow sharing of a NAND flash device (108) among the multiple host processors. The desc...

Described herein is a multi-host computing system (100) having multiple host processors running different operating systems. In one implementation, a method of playing audio streams received from a pliirality of hosts of a multi-host computing system (100), the method comprising receiving a second audio stream from ...

Described herein is a system having a multi-host SATA controller (102) configured to provide communication and control between two or more independent host processors (104) and a single SATA device (108). In one implementation, the multi-host SATA controller (102) includes the device switching layer (206), the devic...

The present subject matter discloses methods and systems of sharing of peripheral devices in multi host computing systems (100). In one implementation, the method of sharing a peripheral device (116) amongst a plurality of hosts of the multi-host computing system (100) comprises receiving a request to switch the per...

The present subject matter discloses methods and systems of application sharing in multi-host computing system (100) running multiple operating systems. In one embodiment, the method for application sharing in a multi-host computing system (100) comprises receiving a request to launch an application in a first opera...

Described herein are methods and systems for virtualization of a USB device to enable sharing of the USB device among a plurality of host processors in a multi-processor computing system. A USB virtualization unit for sharing of the USB device include a per-host register unit, each corresponding to a host processor ...

Described herein is a multi-host peripheral controller configured to allow a plurality of host processors to simultaneously access the I/O devices through one of a per-host dedicated system bus architecture and common system bus architecture. Such a bus architecture is one of AXI, AHB, PCI, PCIe, OCP, etc. The multi...

Described herein is a detachable multi-host computing system (100) having multiple host processors running different operating systems. In one implementation, the multi-host computing system (100) includes a detachable unit (102) and a base unit (104). Each of the detachable unit (102) and the base unit (104) incl...

In one implementation, an optimized multi-root input-output virtualization (MRIOV) aware switch configured to route data between multiple root complexes and I/O devices is described. The MRIOV aware switch may include two or more upstream ports and one or more downstream ports. Each of an upstream port and a downstr...

Described herein is a system having a multi-host Ethernet controller (102) configured to provide communication and control between two or more independent host processors (104) and a network device. In one implementation, the multi host Ethernet controller (102), having an integrated L2 switch (110) to enable a plur...

Systems and methods for sharing a single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) device (106) amongst a plurality of roots (104) are described herein. The described systems implement a method which includes identifying a physical function (PF) and a plurality of virtual functions (VFs) associated with the SR-IOV device (10...

A hierarchical wearable processing unit (HWPU) (102) for WPUs (100) is described. According to an implementation of the present subject matter, the HWPU (102) may include a plurality of hierarchies (106). Each hierarchy (106) from amongst the plurality of hierarchies (106) is determined for a particular performance ...

Disclosed herein is a handheld electronic device (100), such as, smart phones optimized to enhance battery life without compromising on processing capabilities. In accordance with one embodiment of the subject matter described herein, a handheld electronic device (100) comprising a plurality of processors (102, 104)...

Described herein is a system (102) having a virtualization and switching system configured to virtualize I/O devices (108) and perform switching of the I/O devices (108) and I/O requests. The virtualization and switching system (102) includes a peripheral virtualization controller (PVC) (204), at least one device co...

File system sharing in multi-host computing system (100) running multiple operating systems is described herein. A file systems stored on different data partitions (110-1) and (110-1), of different operating systems (106-1) and (106-2), running on a multi-host computing system (100) may be shared based on file serve...

The present subject matter discloses methods and systems of power management in multiple host computing system (100) running multiple operating systems. In one embodiment, a multi host platform management module (126) facilitates power management in multi host computing system (100). In said implementation, the mult...

The present subject matter discloses methods and systems of network interface sharing in multiple host computing system (100) running multiple operating systems. In one embodiment, the multi-host computing system (100) comprises a network interface controller (118) configured to provide access to at least one commun...

The present subject matter discloses methods and systems of access synchronization of applications in multi host computing systems running multiple operating systems. In embodiments, the methods and systems also disclose synchronizing applications across various hosts using at least one of a remote shared applicatio...

Described herein are methods and system for sharing a wireless interface (102) among various multiple host processors in a multi-processor computing system (100) to provide simultaneous access of a wireless network to the host processors. In one implementation the multi-host computing system (100), comprises a wirel...

Systems and methods to share a plurality of virtual network interface controllers (vNICs) amongst a plurality of hosts 104 are described. The described methods are implemented in a network sharing system (NISS) (102) including a programmable vNIC cluster (204) comprising the plurality of vNICs, where a set of vNICs ...

Described herein is a system havirvg a multi-host low pin count (LPC) controller (100) configured to facilitate sharing of common peripheral devices by multiple hosts (115) of a multi-host computing system (110). In one implementation, the multi-host LPC controller (100) interfaces with the hosts (115) via an ON-chi...