US20060121936A1 - Portable computing device adapted to update display information while in a low power mode - Google Patents
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- Portable computing devices such as, for example, cellular phones, typically operate on battery power.
- the amount of time that a portable computing device may be operated using a battery is typically directly proportional to the amount of power consumed by electronic devices within the portable computing device. Accordingly, it may be desirable to turn off or suspend operation of components (e.g. the processor) while the device is not in use. However, it may also be desirable to continue to display information on the display while the portable computing device is not in use.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram representation of a mobile device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a descriptor to bitmap representation for a method of operating the mobile device in FIG. 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- An algorithm is here, and generally, considered to be a self-consistent sequence of acts or operations leading to a desired result. These include physical manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, though not necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical or magnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared, and otherwise manipulated. It has proven convenient at times, principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to these signals as bits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers or the like. It should be understood, however, that all of these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to these quantities.
- Embodiments of the present invention may include apparatuses for performing the operations herein.
- An apparatus may be specially constructed for the desired purposes, or it may comprise a general purpose computing device selectively activated or reconfigured by a program stored in the device.
- a program may be stored on a storage medium, such as, but not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical disks, compact disc read only memories (CD-ROMs), magnetic-optical disks, read-only memories (ROMs), random access memories (RAMs), electrically programmable read-only memories (EPROMs), electrically erasable and programmable read only memories (EEPROMs), flash memories, digital video disk ROM, magnetic or optical cards, or any other type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions, and capable of being coupled to a system bus for a computing device.
- CD-ROMs compact disc read only memories
- ROMs read-only memories
- RAMs random access memories
- EPROMs electrically programmable read-only memories
- EEPROMs electrically
- Coupled may mean that two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contact. However, “coupled” may also mean that two or more elements are not in direct contact with each other, but yet still co-operate or interact with each other.
- Embodiment 100 may comprise a portable computing or communication device 50 such as a mobile communication device (e.g., cell phone), a two-way radio communication system, a one-way pager, a two-way pager, a personal communication system (PCS), a portable computer, or the like.
- a mobile communication device e.g., cell phone
- PCS personal communication system
- a portable computer or the like.
- portable communication device 50 may include a processor 10 that may execute instructions such as instructions stored in a memory 40 .
- Processor 10 may be one of a variety of integrated circuits such as, for example, a microprocessor, a central processing unit (CPU), a digital signal processor, a microcontroller, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC), a complex instruction set computer (CISC), or the like, although the scope of the present invention is not limited by the particular design or functionality performed by processor 10 .
- portable communication device 50 may comprise multiple processors that may be of the same or different type.
- portable communication device 50 may comprise a CISC processor to execute general user applications and a base band processor that may be used to initiate and receive wireless communications.
- Portable communication device 50 may also comprise a display 20 to provide information to a user (i.e. time of day, remaining battery strength, strength of transmitting and/or received signals, etc.).
- a display controller 21 having a frame buffer 22 may be used to store and provide information to be displayed, although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect.
- Portable communication device 50 may further comprise communication modules 30 - 32 to provide access to other devices, service, networks, etc.
- communication modules 30 - 32 may be used to allow portable communication device 50 to communicate with other devices networks through either a wired or wireless link.
- communication modules may use antennae 34 - 35 to wirelessly communicate with networks 60 - 61 .
- communication modules 30 - 31 may employ a variety of wireless communication protocols such as cellular (e.g. Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular radiotelephone communication systems, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) cellular radiotelephone systems, GPRS, North American Digital Cellular (NADC) cellular radiotelephone systems, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) systems, Extended-TDMA (E-TDMA) cellular radiotelephone systems, third generation (3G) systems like Wide-band CDMA (WCDMA), CDMA-2000, and the like).
- CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
- GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
- GPRS Global System for Mobile Communications
- NADC North American Digital Cellular
- TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
- E-TDMA Extended-TDMA
- 3G third generation
- WCDMA Wide-band CDMA
- CDMA-2000 Code Division Multiple Access-2000
- communication modules may use other wireless local area network (WLAN), wide area network (WAN), or local area network (LAN) protocols such as the Industrial Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard, BluetoothTM, infrared, etc. (Bluetooth is a registered trademark of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group).
- WLAN wireless local area network
- WAN wide area network
- LAN local area network
- the scope of the present invention is not limited by the types of, the number of, or the frequency of the of communication protocols that may be used by portable communication device 50 .
- alternative embodiments may only have no, one, or two communication modules (either wired or wireless) and communication modules need not have separate antenna, and some or all may share a common antenna.
- Portable communication device 50 may also comprise memory 40 that may comprise any variety of volatile or non-volatile memory such as any of the types of storage media recited earlier, although this list is certainly not meant to be exhaustive and the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect.
- Memory 40 may be used to store sets of instructions such as instructions associated with an application program, an operating system program, a communication protocol program, etc.
- the instructions stored in memory 40 may be used to perform wireless communications, provide security functionality for portable communication device 50 , user functionality such as calendaring, email, internet browsing, etc.
- memory 40 may be used to store information to be displayed by display 20 .
- processor 10 may comprise embedded memory 11 that may be used in a manner similar to memory 40 and comprise any of the memory types described above or other memory compatible with processor 10 .
- Portable computing device 50 may also comprise a direct memory access (DMA) engine 25 that may be used to transfer information to be displayed by display 20 , although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect.
- DMA engine 25 may also be used to transfer data to and from other components of portable communication device 50 .
- DMA engine 25 may also be optionally be used to transfer data and/or instructions from memory 40 to processor 10 while processor 10 is executing instructions.
- DMA engine 25 may involve the use of instructions or descriptors.
- the descriptors may include information such as where the information is originating from, the destination of the data, the type of data being transferred, the size of the data being transferred, addressing information (e.g. address offset information, etc.) that may be used during the accessing of the source and/or destination of the data, etc. It should be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited so as to require all or any particular subset of the information listed above. In addition, other information may be included with the descriptors used by DMA engine 25 .
- DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer data to be displayed on display 20 without involving processor 10 as explained in more detail below.
- processor 10 may have two or more operational modes such as, for example, a normal operational mode during which instructions are executed and a standby or low power mode during which the execution of instructions is either significantly reduced (i.e. clock frequency is reduced) or halted altogether, or alternatively, reduce or remove the power supply potentials from the device.
- Processor 10 may have a core or core region 12 that may be used to execute instructions.
- Core 12 may include, for example, logic circuitry to execute instructions, buses, caches, arithmetic logic units (ALUs), registers, etc.
- core 12 may or may not include memory such as memory 11 . It should be understood that the scope of the invention is not limited so as to require that core 12 include all of these elements as in alternative embodiments other components may be included within core 12 or the elements listed above may not be in core 12 or even within processor 12 .
- core 12 refers to a portion of processor 10 that may be inactive while DMA engine 25 is transferring data to be displayed.
- processor 10 may also have two or more standby modes during which the execution of instructions is either reduced or halted.
- one standby mode may represent a condition where only a portion of processor 10 is active and executing instructions
- another standby mode may represent a condition during with the power supply voltage potential and/or clock frequency of core 12 is reduced to reduce power consumption.
- yet another standby mode may represent a condition where the power supply voltage potential is removed altogether from all or a portion of processor 10 .
- processor 10 may have a standby or disabled operational mode where at least a portion of the logic circuitry of core region 12 is indeterminate.
- DMA engine 25 may transfer data to be displayed.
- DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer data so that display 20 may continue to display information such as the current time without involving processor 10 .
- memory 40 may store information associated with the bit maps 250 - 259 to display the digits zero to nine, respectively.
- Descriptors 240 - 249 may provide a linked list so that DMA engine 25 transfers the appropriate bitmap to display 20 .
- descriptors 240 - 249 may include one portion 210 that comprises the location of the bitmap to be transferred to frame buffer 22 of display controller 21 .
- portion 211 may include the start address of the location in memory 40 for the bitmap of a particular numeral.
- descriptions 240 - 249 may include a portion 211 that may indicate the next descriptor to be executed or performed by DMA engine 25 upon the occurrence of an event or trigger.
- DMA engine 25 may execute descriptor 240 to transfer the data associated with the bit map for the numeral 0 from memory 40 to frame buffer 22 , display controller 21 may then have the bit map displayed on the appropriate location of display 20 . DMA engine 25 may then wait for the occurrence of an event or a trigger before performing the transfer associated with descriptor 241 . Although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect, DMA engine 25 may wait for an enable or logic signal from circuitry indicating the appropriate moment to display the information associated with descriptor 241 .
- the enable or logic signal may come from a variety or sources such as, but not limited to, an interrupt signal, a transition in a clock or logic signal, output of a timer, a logic circuit, etc. It should be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited by the nature or source of the trigger signal that causes DMA engine to transition to the next descriptor.
- the event signal may come from an internal clock that notifies DMA engine to display the next numeral. As shown in FIG.
- DMA engine 25 may then cycle through descriptors 240 - 249 with each event trigger, and thus, display the numerals zero-through nine, and then repeat as the last descriptor 249 may point back to descriptor 240 to repeat the process, although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect.
- DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer different data to be displayed on display 25 .
- DMA engine 25 may modify the image or data that is to be displayed by transferring data to the display controller.
- DMA engine 25 may transfer information as current date, received signal strength, transmitted signal strength, battery life, and others.
- DMA engine 25 may display bit maps that when displayed in sequence allow display 20 to display images such as, for example, moving icons, video images, etc. The bit map may also be used to provide other information to a user such as the fact that there are messages waiting, no service is available, etc.
- the scope of the present invention is not limited by the particular information transferred by DMA engine 25 .
- image data may be transferred to display controller 21 without involving the use of a core region 12 of processor 10 .
- the transfers may be done without the associated power consumption of processor 10 since processor 10 may be kept in a standby or disabled operational mode.
- the transfer to display controller 21 may be done without having to change the operational mode of processor 10 , although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect.
- DMA engine 25 need not be limited to transferring data while processor 10 is in active. DMA engine 25 may also be used to transfer data (e.g. instructions, operations, etc.) to processor 10 while processor 10 is in a normal operational mode or is otherwise executing instructions. Similarly, DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer other data (e.g. voice data, user data, instructions, etc.) between other components of portable computing device 50 ; some of which may not be shown in FIG. 1 .
- DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer data to display controller 21 from memory that is internal to processor 10 .
- the source of the data to be display need not be external to processor 10 .
- DMA engine 15 may be used to display or update information on display 20 without involving the use of processor 10 .
- portable computing device 50 may comprise more than one processor such as, for example, a base band processor that may be used to hand wireless communications and an application processor to execute user applications.
- DMA engine 25 may used to display information associated with the base band processor (e.g. received signal strength) without involving the applications processor.
- a base station may transmit signals to portable computing device 50 , and the appropriate images may be displayed on display 20 without involving the application processor or its associated power consumption.
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Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a portable computing device that has a processor, a direct memory access (DMA) engine, and a display controller may transfer data with the DMA engine to the display. The DMA engine may transfer the data while the processor is in a standby mode and transfer data to the processor while the processor is executing instructions.
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- Portable computing devices such as, for example, cellular phones, typically operate on battery power. The amount of time that a portable computing device may be operated using a battery is typically directly proportional to the amount of power consumed by electronic devices within the portable computing device. Accordingly, it may be desirable to turn off or suspend operation of components (e.g. the processor) while the device is not in use. However, it may also be desirable to continue to display information on the display while the portable computing device is not in use.
- Thus, there is a continuing need for better ways to display information while reducing the effect on battery life.
- The subject matter regarded as the invention is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the concluding portion of the specification. The invention, however, both as to organization and method of operation, together with objects, features, and advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following detailed description when read with the accompanying drawings in which:
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram representation of a mobile device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 2 is a descriptor to bitmap representation for a method of operating the mobile device inFIG. 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention. - It will be appreciated that for simplicity and clarity of illustration, elements illustrated in the figures have not necessarily been drawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements are exaggerated relative to other elements for clarity. Further, where considered appropriate, reference numerals have been repeated among the figures to indicate corresponding or analogous elements.
- In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the invention. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures, components and circuits have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the present invention.
- Some portions of the detailed description that follows are presented in terms of algorithms and symbolic representations of operations on data bits or binary digital signals within a computer memory. These algorithmic descriptions and representations may be the techniques used by those skilled in the data processing arts to convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art.
- An algorithm is here, and generally, considered to be a self-consistent sequence of acts or operations leading to a desired result. These include physical manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, though not necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical or magnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared, and otherwise manipulated. It has proven convenient at times, principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to these signals as bits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers or the like. It should be understood, however, that all of these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to these quantities.
- Unless specifically stated otherwise, as apparent from the following discussions, it is appreciated that throughout the specification discussions utilizing terms such as “processing,” “computing,” “calculating,” “determining,” or the like, refer to the action and/or processes of a computer or computing system, or similar electronic computing device, that manipulate and/or transform data represented as physical, such as electronic, quantities within the computing system's registers and/or memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the computing system's memories, registers or other such information storage, transmission or display devices.
- Embodiments of the present invention may include apparatuses for performing the operations herein. An apparatus may be specially constructed for the desired purposes, or it may comprise a general purpose computing device selectively activated or reconfigured by a program stored in the device. Such a program may be stored on a storage medium, such as, but not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical disks, compact disc read only memories (CD-ROMs), magnetic-optical disks, read-only memories (ROMs), random access memories (RAMs), electrically programmable read-only memories (EPROMs), electrically erasable and programmable read only memories (EEPROMs), flash memories, digital video disk ROM, magnetic or optical cards, or any other type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions, and capable of being coupled to a system bus for a computing device.
- The processes and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computing device or other apparatus. Various general purpose systems may be used with programs in accordance with the teachings herein, or it may prove convenient to construct a more specialized apparatus to perform the desired method. The desired structure for a variety of these systems will appear from the description below. In addition, embodiments of the present invention are not described with reference to any particular programming language. It will be appreciated that a variety of programming languages may be used to implement the teachings of the invention as described herein.
- In the following description and claims, the terms “coupled” and “connected,” along with their derivatives, may be used. It should be understood that these terms are not intended as synonyms for each other. Rather, in particular embodiments, “connected” may be used to indicate that two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contact with each other. “Coupled” may mean that two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contact. However, “coupled” may also mean that two or more elements are not in direct contact with each other, but yet still co-operate or interact with each other.
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FIG. 1 , anembodiment 100 in accordance with the present invention is described.Embodiment 100 may comprise a portable computing orcommunication device 50 such as a mobile communication device (e.g., cell phone), a two-way radio communication system, a one-way pager, a two-way pager, a personal communication system (PCS), a portable computer, or the like. Although it should be understood that the scope and application of the present invention is in no way limited to these examples. Other embodiments of the present invention may include other computing systems that may or may not be portable or even involve communication systems such as, for example, desktop or portable computers, servers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), network switching equipment, etc. - In this particular embodiment
portable communication device 50 may include aprocessor 10 that may execute instructions such as instructions stored in amemory 40.Processor 10 may be one of a variety of integrated circuits such as, for example, a microprocessor, a central processing unit (CPU), a digital signal processor, a microcontroller, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC), a complex instruction set computer (CISC), or the like, although the scope of the present invention is not limited by the particular design or functionality performed byprocessor 10. In addition, in some alternative embodiments,portable communication device 50 may comprise multiple processors that may be of the same or different type. For example, in another embodiment,portable communication device 50 may comprise a CISC processor to execute general user applications and a base band processor that may be used to initiate and receive wireless communications. -
Portable communication device 50 may also comprise adisplay 20 to provide information to a user (i.e. time of day, remaining battery strength, strength of transmitting and/or received signals, etc.). Adisplay controller 21 having aframe buffer 22 may be used to store and provide information to be displayed, although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect. -
Portable communication device 50 may further comprise communication modules 30-32 to provide access to other devices, service, networks, etc. For example communication modules 30-32 may be used to allowportable communication device 50 to communicate with other devices networks through either a wired or wireless link. As shown, communication modules may use antennae 34-35 to wirelessly communicate with networks 60-61. - Although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect, communication modules 30-31 may employ a variety of wireless communication protocols such as cellular (e.g. Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular radiotelephone communication systems, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) cellular radiotelephone systems, GPRS, North American Digital Cellular (NADC) cellular radiotelephone systems, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) systems, Extended-TDMA (E-TDMA) cellular radiotelephone systems, third generation (3G) systems like Wide-band CDMA (WCDMA), CDMA-2000, and the like).
- In addition, communication modules may use other wireless local area network (WLAN), wide area network (WAN), or local area network (LAN) protocols such as the Industrial Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard, Bluetooth™, infrared, etc. (Bluetooth is a registered trademark of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group).
- It should be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited by the types of, the number of, or the frequency of the of communication protocols that may be used by
portable communication device 50. Furthermore, alternative embodiments may only have no, one, or two communication modules (either wired or wireless) and communication modules need not have separate antenna, and some or all may share a common antenna. -
Portable communication device 50 may also comprisememory 40 that may comprise any variety of volatile or non-volatile memory such as any of the types of storage media recited earlier, although this list is certainly not meant to be exhaustive and the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect.Memory 40 may be used to store sets of instructions such as instructions associated with an application program, an operating system program, a communication protocol program, etc. For example, the instructions stored inmemory 40 may be used to perform wireless communications, provide security functionality forportable communication device 50, user functionality such as calendaring, email, internet browsing, etc. Further, as explained in more detail below,memory 40 may be used to store information to be displayed bydisplay 20. In addition to or alternatively,processor 10 may comprise embeddedmemory 11 that may be used in a manner similar tomemory 40 and comprise any of the memory types described above or other memory compatible withprocessor 10. -
Portable computing device 50 may also comprise a direct memory access (DMA)engine 25 that may be used to transfer information to be displayed bydisplay 20, although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect. In addition,DMA engine 25 may also be used to transfer data to and from other components ofportable communication device 50. For example,DMA engine 25 may also be optionally be used to transfer data and/or instructions frommemory 40 toprocessor 10 whileprocessor 10 is executing instructions. - Although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect, the operation of
DMA engine 25 may involve the use of instructions or descriptors. For example, the descriptors may include information such as where the information is originating from, the destination of the data, the type of data being transferred, the size of the data being transferred, addressing information (e.g. address offset information, etc.) that may be used during the accessing of the source and/or destination of the data, etc. It should be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited so as to require all or any particular subset of the information listed above. In addition, other information may be included with the descriptors used byDMA engine 25. - Turning to
FIG. 2 , a method in accordance with a particular embodiment is now provided. In this particularembodiment DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer data to be displayed ondisplay 20 without involvingprocessor 10 as explained in more detail below. Although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect,processor 10 may have two or more operational modes such as, for example, a normal operational mode during which instructions are executed and a standby or low power mode during which the execution of instructions is either significantly reduced (i.e. clock frequency is reduced) or halted altogether, or alternatively, reduce or remove the power supply potentials from the device. -
Processor 10 may have a core orcore region 12 that may be used to execute instructions.Core 12 may include, for example, logic circuitry to execute instructions, buses, caches, arithmetic logic units (ALUs), registers, etc. In addition,core 12 may or may not include memory such asmemory 11. It should be understood that the scope of the invention is not limited so as to require thatcore 12 include all of these elements as in alternative embodiments other components may be included withincore 12 or the elements listed above may not be incore 12 or even withinprocessor 12. Simply stated, for this particular embodiment,core 12 refers to a portion ofprocessor 10 that may be inactive whileDMA engine 25 is transferring data to be displayed. - It should be understood that
processor 10 may also have two or more standby modes during which the execution of instructions is either reduced or halted. For example, one standby mode may represent a condition where only a portion ofprocessor 10 is active and executing instructions, another standby mode may represent a condition during with the power supply voltage potential and/or clock frequency ofcore 12 is reduced to reduce power consumption. In addition, yet another standby mode may represent a condition where the power supply voltage potential is removed altogether from all or a portion ofprocessor 10. In yet another embodiment,processor 10 may have a standby or disabled operational mode where at least a portion of the logic circuitry ofcore region 12 is indeterminate. - Thus, while processor is in a standby or inactive mode,
DMA engine 25 may transfer data to be displayed. For example, in the embodiment shown inFIG. 2 ,DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer data so thatdisplay 20 may continue to display information such as the current time without involvingprocessor 10. In this example,memory 40 may store information associated with the bit maps 250-259 to display the digits zero to nine, respectively. Descriptors 240-249 may provide a linked list so thatDMA engine 25 transfers the appropriate bitmap to display 20. - In this particular example, descriptors 240-249 may include one
portion 210 that comprises the location of the bitmap to be transferred toframe buffer 22 ofdisplay controller 21. For example,portion 211 may include the start address of the location inmemory 40 for the bitmap of a particular numeral. In addition, descriptions 240-249 may include aportion 211 that may indicate the next descriptor to be executed or performed byDMA engine 25 upon the occurrence of an event or trigger. - For example,
DMA engine 25 may executedescriptor 240 to transfer the data associated with the bit map for the numeral 0 frommemory 40 toframe buffer 22,display controller 21 may then have the bit map displayed on the appropriate location ofdisplay 20.DMA engine 25 may then wait for the occurrence of an event or a trigger before performing the transfer associated withdescriptor 241. Although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect,DMA engine 25 may wait for an enable or logic signal from circuitry indicating the appropriate moment to display the information associated withdescriptor 241. - The enable or logic signal may come from a variety or sources such as, but not limited to, an interrupt signal, a transition in a clock or logic signal, output of a timer, a logic circuit, etc. It should be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited by the nature or source of the trigger signal that causes DMA engine to transition to the next descriptor. In this particular example, the event signal may come from an internal clock that notifies DMA engine to display the next numeral. As shown in
FIG. 2 ,DMA engine 25 may then cycle through descriptors 240-249 with each event trigger, and thus, display the numerals zero-through nine, and then repeat as thelast descriptor 249 may point back todescriptor 240 to repeat the process, although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect. - In alternative
embodiments DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer different data to be displayed ondisplay 25. Thus,DMA engine 25 may modify the image or data that is to be displayed by transferring data to the display controller. For example,DMA engine 25 may transfer information as current date, received signal strength, transmitted signal strength, battery life, and others. Alternatively or in addition to,DMA engine 25 may display bit maps that when displayed in sequence allowdisplay 20 to display images such as, for example, moving icons, video images, etc. The bit map may also be used to provide other information to a user such as the fact that there are messages waiting, no service is available, etc. However, it should be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited by the particular information transferred byDMA engine 25. - One advantage of this particular embodiment, although not necessarily all embodiments, is that image data may be transferred to display
controller 21 without involving the use of acore region 12 ofprocessor 10. As a result, the transfers may be done without the associated power consumption ofprocessor 10 sinceprocessor 10 may be kept in a standby or disabled operational mode. In other words, the transfer to displaycontroller 21 may be done without having to change the operational mode ofprocessor 10, although the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect. - It should also be understood that the use of
DMA engine 25 need not be limited to transferring data whileprocessor 10 is in active.DMA engine 25 may also be used to transfer data (e.g. instructions, operations, etc.) toprocessor 10 whileprocessor 10 is in a normal operational mode or is otherwise executing instructions. Similarly,DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer other data (e.g. voice data, user data, instructions, etc.) between other components ofportable computing device 50; some of which may not be shown inFIG. 1 . - In yet another embodiment,
DMA engine 25 may be used to transfer data to displaycontroller 21 from memory that is internal toprocessor 10. In other words, the source of the data to be display need not be external toprocessor 10. - In the case where
portable computing device 50 is a cellular phone, DMA engine 15 may be used to display or update information ondisplay 20 without involving the use ofprocessor 10. For example, in some embodimentsportable computing device 50 may comprise more than one processor such as, for example, a base band processor that may be used to hand wireless communications and an application processor to execute user applications. In such applications,DMA engine 25 may used to display information associated with the base band processor (e.g. received signal strength) without involving the applications processor. In such embodiments, a base station may transmit signals toportable computing device 50, and the appropriate images may be displayed ondisplay 20 without involving the application processor or its associated power consumption. - While certain features of the invention have been illustrated and described herein, many modifications, substitutions, changes, and equivalents will now occur to those skilled in the art. It is, therefore, to be understood that the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications and changes as fall within the true spirit of the invention.
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24. A wireless communication device comprising:
a display; and
an application microprocessor coupled to the display to provide information to be displayed on the display, wherein the wireless communication device is adapted to update displayed information while the application microprocessor is inactive or in a standby mode.
25. The wireless communication device of claim 24 , further comprising a direct memory access (DMA) engine coupled to the application microprocessor and the display to update the displayed information while the application microprocessor is inactive or in the standby mode.
26. The wireless communication device of claim 25 , wherein the DMA engine is adapted to transfer information from a memory to the display while the application microprocessor is inactive or in the standby mode.
26. The wireless communication device of claim 26 , wherein the memory is external to the application microprocessor.
28. The wireless communication device of claim 26 , wherein the memory is internal to the application microprocessor.
29. The wireless communication device of claim 26 , wherein the DMA engine is adapted to transfer information from the memory to a frame buffer in a display controller while the microprocessor is inactive or in the standby mode.
30. The wireless communication device of claim 24 , wherein the displayed information is indicative of information of one or more of current time, received signal strength, transmitted signal strength, or battery life.
31. A direct memory access (DMA) engine adapted to transfer data to a display frame buffer to update information on a display while an associated applications processor is inactive or in a standby mode.
32. The DMA engine of claim 31 wherein the information to be updated on the display pertains to information of one of time, signal strength or battery life
33. The DMA engine of claim 31 , wherein the DMA engine uses descriptors to access memory locations to update bit map information on the display while the associated applications processor is inactive or in the standby mode.
34. The DMA engine of claim 31 wherein transfer of data to the display frame buffer is performed by the DMA engine in response to a trigger signal.
35. The DMA engine of claim 31 wherein the display frame buffer comprises a portion of a liquid crystal display (LCD) display controller.
36. A portable system comprising:
a baseband processor;
an application processor coupled to the baseband processor;
a display controller coupled to the application processor; and
a direct memory access (DMA) engine coupled to the display controller and the application processor; wherein the DMA engine is configured to continually update information to the display controller for display without involvement of the application processor.
37. The portable system of claim 36 further comprising a memory to store the information continually updated to the display controller by the DMA engine without involvement of the application processor.
38. The portable system of claim 36 wherein the baseband processor comprises a portion of a communication module, the communication module comprising at least one antenna.
39. The portable system of claim 36 wherein the DMA engine is triggered to update information to the display controller by a signal from the baseband processor.
40. The portable system of claim 36 wherein the information continually updated to the display controller by the DMA engine comprises graphics pertaining to one or more of display information for battery status, signal strength or time.
41. The portable system of claim 36 wherein the portable system comprises a cellular phone.
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