Console Compute Card With Mirrored PCIe Endpoints for Host Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game console hardware is proprietary and complex to adapt for game development, especially in cloud-based environments, lacking easy integration with other systems.
Innovation Solution
A console compute card with an APU, Southbridge, and PCIe edge connector, providing mirrored PCIe endpoints for seamless integration into host systems, enabling communication and resource access while maintaining a game console's native environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If game console hardware is made proprietary to maintain native environment, then reliability is improved, but adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a bridge interface as an intermediary component between the proprietary game console hardware and the host system. This bridge translates and adapts communication protocols, allowing the console hardware to maintain its native environment while seamlessly integrating with diverse host systems. The bridge acts as a mediator that resolves the contradiction by enabling adaptability without compromising the reliability of the native console environment.
2Ease of operation
If specialized hardware is created for game development, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the game console hardware universal by enabling it to function both as a standalone retail console and as an integrated development platform within host systems. The same hardware resources can serve multiple purposes: running consumer games natively and supporting game development workflows. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate specialized hardware, thereby simplifying the overall system while improving ease of operation for developers.
3Adaptability or versatility
If game console is adapted for cloud-based development, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bridge interface serves as a mediator that simplifies cloud-based development integration by handling protocol translation and communication adaptation between the game console hardware and cloud infrastructure. This intermediary approach enables the console to adapt to cloud-based development environments without requiring complex modifications to its core architecture, thereby improving adaptability while managing device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A console compute card for installation in a host system is provided, including: an accelerated processing unit (APU); a Southbridge; a PCIe edge connector for insertion into a PCIe slot of the host system to form a PCIe connection between the console compute card and the host system; wherein a PCIe connection between the APU and the Southbridge is defined as part of a PCIe fabric of the console compute card; wherein the Southbridge exposes one or more mirrored PCIe endpoints, including one or more local endpoints for enumeration by the APU through the PCIe fabric of the console compute card, and one or more host-facing endpoints for enumeration by the host system through a PCIe fabric of the host system; wherein the console compute card includes compute resources substantially similar to compute resources of a retail game console.