CN103428831A - Electronic equipment and communication method thereof - Google Patents

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CN103428831A
CN103428831A CN2012101589739A CN201210158973A CN103428831A CN 103428831 A CN103428831 A CN 103428831A CN 2012101589739 A CN2012101589739 A CN 2012101589739A CN 201210158973 A CN201210158973 A CN 201210158973A CN 103428831 A CN103428831 A CN 103428831A
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The invention discloses electronic equipment and a communication method thereof. The electronic equipment comprises a communication processor and an application processor. The communication processor comprises a judging unit, a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The judging unit is used for judging whether communication carried out by the electronic equipment belongs to first communication or second communication. The first processing unit is used for processing first data related to the first communication when the judging unit judges that the communication carried out by the electronic equipment belongs to the first communication. The second processing unit is used for processing second data related to the second communication when the judging unit judges that the communication carried out by the electronic equipment belongs to the second communication. According to the electronic equipment, the application processor powerful in performance can be utilized for finishing protocol analysis and encoding and decoding processing related to a part of the communication functions, and therefore unnecessary waste of the processing performance of the application processor is avoided.

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Electronic equipment and communication means thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to field of computer technology, more specifically, the present invention relates to a kind of electronic equipment and communication means thereof.
Background technology
In recent years, the electronic equipment such as panel computer (PAD), mobile phone, multimedia player, PDA(Personal Digital Assistant) is universal all the more.
Existing electronic equipment adopts the dual chip framework of application processor (AP, Application Processor) and communication processor (CP, Communication Processor) (being called again baseband processor) usually.In this framework, application processor has been used for as audio frequency and video are play, document is read and the function such as processings, because the processing of carrying out is comparatively complicated, thereby the relatively high performance processor of its general employing, such as the Cortex A series processors of ARM company etc.; And communication processor is for providing communication path to application processor, and realize the communication function of the speech and data communication of various standards, because the processing of carrying out is relatively simple, thereby its general processor that adopts relative low performance, such as ARM7, the ARM 11 of ARM company and Cortex R series processors etc.
At present, as mentioned above, electronic equipment, when realizing communication function, mainly relies on the relatively low communication processor of performance to complete relevant treatment.For example, move for resolving the protocol stack of various communication protocols by the first processing unit in communication processor (being called again association's processing unit), thereby realize processing for the encoding and decoding of voice communication and/or data communication.
Yet now, the application processor that performance is powerful there is no any effect of performance in above-mentioned communication process, just and carry out control and the data interaction of minute quantity between communication processor.For example, when communication processor receives audio call, application processor is only for receive the telephone number of the incoming call of the voice communication extract from communication processor, and shown to the user by the display of electronic equipment.
Thus, can find out, in the prior art, when electronic equipment, when realizing communication function, not take full advantage of the application processor that performance is powerful, cause processing wasting of resource.
Summary of the invention
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, according to an aspect of the present invention, a kind of electronic equipment is provided, described electronic equipment comprises communication processor and application processor, it is characterized in that, described communication processor comprises: judging unit belongs to the first communication or second communication for judging the performed communication of described electronic equipment; And first processing unit, for when described judgment unit judges, going out the performed communication of described electronic equipment while belonging to the first communication, process the first data that are associated with described the first communication, and described application processor comprises: the second processing unit, for when described judgment unit judges, going out the performed communication of described electronic equipment while belonging to second communication, the second data that processing is associated with described second communication.
In addition, according to a further aspect in the invention, a kind of communication means is provided, be applied to electronic equipment, described electronic equipment comprises communication processor and application processor, it is characterized in that, described communication means comprises: judge that the performed communication of described electronic equipment belongs to the first communication or second communication; When the performed communication of described electronic equipment belongs to the first communication, process the first data that are associated with described the first communication by the first processing unit of described communication processor; And, when the performed communication of described electronic equipment belongs to second communication, process the second data that are associated with described second communication by the second processing unit of described application processor.
Compared with prior art, employing is according to electronic equipment of the present invention and communication means thereof, when electronic equipment when realizing communication function, at first judge the type of performed communication, then according to the type of this communication, respectively by communication processor and application processor processes signal of communication associated therewith.Therefore, in the present invention, not only can utilize communication processor to carry out a part of communication function, but also can complete protocol analysis and the encoding and decoding processing be associated with another part communication function by the powerful application processor of utility, thereby avoided the unnecessary waste of application processor processes performance.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will be set forth in the following description, and, partly from specification, become apparent, or understand by implementing the present invention.Purpose of the present invention and other advantages can realize and obtain by specifically noted structure in specification, claims and accompanying drawing.
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Accompanying drawing is used to provide a further understanding of the present invention, and forms the part of specification, for explaining the present invention, is not construed as limiting the invention together with embodiments of the present invention.In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 illustrates according to electronic equipment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 illustrates according to communication means of the present invention.
Fig. 3 illustrates the mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 illustrates the communication means according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 illustrates a kind of system configuration according to the mobile phone of the embodiment of the present invention.
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Describe in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings according to each embodiment of the present invention.Here, it should be noted that in the accompanying drawings, identical Reference numeral is given and basically had part identical or similar structures and function, and will omit being repeated in this description about them.
Hereinafter, with reference to Fig. 1 and 2, describe according to electronic equipment of the present invention and communication means thereof.
Fig. 1 illustrates according to electronic equipment 100 of the present invention.
As illustrated in figure 1, electronic equipment 100 according to the present invention comprises communication processor 110 and application processor 120.
Particularly, described communication processor 110 comprises:
Judging unit 111, belong to the first communication or second communication for judging the performed communication of described electronic equipment 100; And
The first processing unit 112, while for judge the performed communication of described electronic equipment 100 when described judging unit 111, belonging to the first communication, process the first data that are associated with described the first communication, and
Described application processor 120 comprises:
The second processing unit 122, while for judge the performed communication of described electronic equipment 100 when described judging unit 111, belonging to second communication, process the second data that are associated with described second communication.
Fig. 2 illustrates according to communication means of the present invention.
As illustrated in Figure 2, letter method according to the present invention is applied to electronic equipment 100, and described electronic equipment 100 comprises communication processor 110 and application processor 120.Particularly, described communication means comprises:
In step S210, judge that the performed communication of described electronic equipment 100 belongs to the first communication or second communication;
In step S220, when the performed communication of described electronic equipment 100 belongs to the first communication, process the first data that are associated with described the first communication by the first processing unit 112 of described communication processor 110; And
In step S230, when the performed communication of described electronic equipment 100 belongs to second communication, by the second processing unit 122 of described application processor 120, process the second data that are associated with described second communication.
As can be seen here, employing, according to electronic equipment of the present invention and communication means thereof, when realizing communication function, at first judges the type of performed communication when electronic equipment, then according to the type of this communication, process signal of communication associated therewith by communication processor and application processor respectively.Therefore, in the present invention, not only can utilize communication processor to carry out a part of communication function, but also can complete protocol analysis and the encoding and decoding processing be associated with another part communication function by the powerful application processor of utility, thereby avoided the unnecessary waste of application processor processes performance.
Hereinafter, with reference to Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, electronic equipment and the communication means thereof according to the embodiment of the present invention described.In an embodiment of the present invention, the example using mobile phone as electronic equipment describes.The user usually can come dialing/receiving telephone, transmission short message (SMS), multi-media SMS breath (MMS), browsing internet (Internet) or utilize JICQ to carry out the operations such as online chatting by mobile phone.
It should be noted that, although by being applied to mobile phone according to electronic equipment of the present invention and communication means thereof, the present invention is described herein,, those skilled in the art can be understood that, the invention is not restricted to this.But, can also apply the present invention to other electronic equipment, for example, panel computer, multimedia player or personal digital assistant etc.
Fig. 3 illustrates the mobile phone 300 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 4 illustrates the communication means according to the embodiment of the present invention.
The illustrated communication means according to the embodiment of the present invention of Fig. 4 can be applied to the illustrated mobile phone 300 of Fig. 3.As illustrated as Fig. 3, according to the electronic equipment of the embodiment of the present invention, be for example mobile phone 300.Similar to the electronic equipment 100 of Fig. 1, this mobile phone 300 comprises: communication processor 110 and application processor 120.In addition, this mobile phone 300 further comprises: memory 130 and data/address bus 140.
This communication processor 110 comprises: judging unit 111, the first processing unit 112, antenna element 113, radio frequency unit 114 and hardware cell 115.
Wherein, this first processing unit 112 has two kinds of operating states, i.e. high power consumption operating state and low-power consumption operating state.When described judging unit 111 is judged the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 and belonged to the first communication, described the first processing unit 112 is switched to high power consumption operating state, in order to process and the described first first data of communicating by letter and being associated; And, when described judging unit 111 is judged the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 and belonged to second communication, described the first processing unit 112 is switched to the low-power consumption operating state, in order to save power consumption.
This antenna element 113 for from base station or other upstream communication equipment receive electromagnetic wave signals, this electromagnetic wave signal is converted to radiofrequency signal, and this radiofrequency signal is sent to radio frequency unit 114; Perhaps, from radio frequency unit 114 received RF signals, this radiofrequency signal is converted to electromagnetic wave signal, and this electromagnetic wave signal is sent to base station or other downstream communication equipment.
This radio frequency unit 114 down-converts to baseband communication signal for the radiofrequency signal that will receive from antenna element 113, and this baseband communication signal is sent to hardware cell 115 carries out subsequent treatment; The baseband communication signal that perhaps will receive from hardware cell 115 up-converts to radiofrequency signal, and this radiofrequency signal is sent to antenna element 113.This radio frequency unit 114 is such as comprising global system for mobile communications radio frequency (GSM RF) unit for Generation Mobile Telecommunication System (2G), for TD SDMA radio frequency (TD-SCDMA RF) unit of 3G (Third Generation) Moblie (3G) or for Long Term Evolution radio frequency (LTE RF) unit of the 4th third-generation mobile communication (4G) etc.
This hardware cell 115 carries out the hardware decoding for the baseband communication signal to receiving from radio frequency unit 114 to be processed, and decoded voice or data-signal are sent to the first processing unit 112 or the second processing unit 113; Perhaps voice or the data-signal received from the first processing unit 112 or the second processing unit 113 carried out to the hardware encoding processing, and the baseband communication signal after coding is sent to radio frequency unit 114.This hardware cell 115 is such as comprising GSM hardware cell, TD-SCDMA hardware cell, LTE hardware cell and Te Bo (Turbo) decoding hardware cell etc.
This application processor 120 comprises: the second processing unit 122.When described judging unit 111 is judged the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 and belonged to second communication, described the second processing unit 112 is for the treatment of the second data that are associated with described second communication.
The first protocol stack that this memory 130 is associated with described the first communication for storage and the second protocol stack be associated with described second communication.
This data/address bus 140 is for connecting communication processor 110 and application processor 120, make when described the second processing unit 112 is processed the second data that are associated with described second communication, this second processing unit 112 in application processor 120 can communicate with antenna element 113, radio frequency unit 114 and hardware cell Unit 115 in communication processor 110, the normal transmission of the second data that are associated with second communication with assurance.
Further, this mobile phone 300 can also comprise various ancillary equipment, such as the USB for connecting keyboard and mouse (USB) interface, display, loud speaker and other ancillary equipment (such as, wireless network adapter, Bluetooth adapter and global positioning system equipment etc.).In order to simplify, not shown above-mentioned ancillary equipment.
Fig. 5 illustrates a kind of system configuration according to the mobile phone 300 of the embodiment of the present invention.
In one implementation, as illustrated as Fig. 5, this mobile phone 300 can be usingd application processor 120 as main control device, other each ancillary equipment can be connected with application processor 120 by input and output (I/O) interface, and this communication processor 110 also can be connected to this application processor 120 by the I/O interface, as an ancillary equipment of this application processor 120.
It should be noted that, be not limited to above-mentionedly using application processor 120 as the system configuration of main control device according to the mobile phone 300 of the embodiment of the present invention, obviously can also adopt the other system structure to be realized.Because system configuration and the present invention of mobile phone 300 do not have direct correlation, so omitted the specific implementation of other system structure at this.
As illustrated as Fig. 4, according to the communication means of the embodiment of the present invention, comprise:
In step S410, the performed communication of judgement mobile phone 300 belongs to the first communication or second communication.
Particularly, according to the mobile phone 300 of the embodiment of the present invention, for example receiving under the situation of signal of communication, in communication processor 110, this antenna element 113 receives electromagnetic wave signal from the opposite end communication equipment, this electromagnetic wave signal is converted to radiofrequency signal, and this radiofrequency signal is sent to radio frequency unit 114.This radio frequency unit 114 down-converts to baseband communication signal by this radiofrequency signal, and this baseband communication signal is sent to hardware cell 115.115 pairs of these baseband communication signals of this hardware cell carry out the hardware decoding to be processed, and decoded signal of communication is sent to judging unit 111.
Then, these judging unit 111 these decoded signals of communication of judgement belong to the first data that are associated with described the first communication or the second data that are associated with described second communication, thereby judge that the current performed communication of described mobile phone 300 belongs to the first communication or second communication.
In the first example, described the first communication can be voice communication, such as incoming call or go electricity to call out; And described second communication can be data communication, such as browsing internet or by JICQ, carries out online chatting.
If judging unit 111 is judged described mobile phone 300, performed communication belongs to the first communication, and the method continues execution step S420; If judging unit 111 is judged described mobile phone 300, performed communication belongs to second communication, and the method continues execution step S450.
In step S420, when the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 belongs to the first communication, judge that the first processing unit 112 is in high power consumption or low-power consumption operating state.
Particularly, judging the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 when judging unit 111 is for example while receiving an incoming call, this judging unit 111 is further carried out judgement and is processed, current in high power consumption operating state or low-power consumption operating state to judge described the first processing unit 112.
If it is current in high power consumption operating state that judging unit 111 is judged described the first processing unit 112, the method continues execution step S440; If it is current in the low-power consumption operating state that judging unit 111 is judged described the first processing unit 112, the method continues execution step S430.
In step S430, when judging described the first processing unit 112 in the low-power consumption operating state, to described the first processing unit 112, send wake-up signal.
Particularly, during due to the mobile phone 300 in the application embodiment of the present invention, the relevant treatment of 112 the responsible voice communications of the first processing unit in communication processor 110, and the second processing unit 122 in application processor 120 is responsible for the relevant treatment of data communication, so when mobile phone 300 just during the relevant treatment in executing data communication, the first processing unit 112 can be switched to the low-power consumption operating state, in order to reduce the power consumption of the first processing unit 112.
Thus, when judging unit 111 is judged the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 and should be carried out by the first processing unit 112, and to judge described the first processing unit 112 current in the low-power consumption operating state when judging unit 111, it sends wake-up signal to described the first processing unit 112, and described wake-up signal is for being switched to high power consumption operating state by described the first processing unit 112.
The first processing unit 112, after receiving this wake-up signal, is switched to high power consumption operating state again from the low-power consumption operating state, in order to this incoming call is processed.
In step S440, process the first data that are associated with described the first communication by the first processing unit 112 of described communication processor 110.
Particularly, the first processing unit 112 in high power consumption operating state receives the signal of communication relevant to this incoming call, and read the first protocol stack be associated with voice communication from described memory 130, and utilize described the first protocol stack to process described signal of communication, in order to extract telephone number and the voice signal of incoming call wherein.
Then, this first processing unit 112 sends to application processor 120 by extracted telephone number, make this application processor 120 by the I/O interface, this telephone number further be sent to the display of mobile phone 300, thereby show the telephone number of the incoming call in voice communication to the user.
In addition, this first processing unit 112 also sends to application processor 120 by extracted voice signal, make this application processor 120 by the I/O interface, this voice signal further be sent to the loud speaker of mobile phone 300, thereby play the other side caller's speech to the user.
It should be noted that, although herein by telephone number and voice signal are sent to display and loud speaker via application processor, those skilled in the art can be understood that, the invention is not restricted to this.But this first processing unit 112 can also directly send to display and loud speaker by above-mentioned signal.
In step S450, when the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 belongs to second communication, by the second processing unit 122 of described application processor 120, process the second data that are associated with described second communication.
Particularly, at process antenna element 113, after a series of processing of radio frequency unit 114 and hardware cell 115, judging the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 when judging unit 111 is for example while receiving an instant messaging (IM) message, this second processing unit 122 receives the signal of communication relevant to this instant communication message, and read the second protocol stack be associated with data communication from described memory 130, and utilize described second protocol stack to process described signal of communication, in order to extract data-signal wherein, this data-signal for example can comprise the other side contact person's identifier (ID), message content, with transmitting time etc.
Therebetween, from different in prior art, due in an embodiment of the present invention, the second processing unit 122 in application processor 120 need to the antenna element 113 be integrated in communication processor, radio frequency unit 114 and hardware cell 115 carry out a large amount of control and data interaction, so, preferably, data/address bus 140 needs to adopt the data/address bus of larger bandwidth, for example, adopt USB 3.0(USB 3.0) standard, quick peripheral component interconnected (PCIE) standard, or the chip of TI company proposition is to the data/address bus of chip (chip-to-chip) standard.
Then, this second processing unit 122 sends to extracted the other side contact person's identifier, message content and transmitting time the display of mobile phone 300, thereby shows corresponding instant communication message to the user in this instant messaging application.
In step S460, described the second processing unit 122, when processing described the second data, judges that described the first processing unit 112 is in high power consumption operating state or low-power consumption operating state.
Particularly, judging the performed communication of described mobile phone 300 when judging unit 111 is for example while receiving an instant communication message, this judging unit 111 can further be carried out judgement and process, current in high power consumption operating state or low-power consumption operating state to judge described the first processing unit 112.
If it is current in the low-power consumption operating state that judging unit 111 is judged described the first processing unit 112, the method finishes; If it is current in high power consumption operating state that judging unit 111 is judged described the first processing unit 112, the method continues execution step S470.
In step S470, when judging described the first processing unit 112 in high power consumption operating state, to described the first processing unit 112, send pending signal.
Particularly, as mentioned above, due to when mobile phone 300 during the relevant treatment by the second processing unit 122 executing datas communications in application processor 120, the first processing unit 112 in communication processor 110 can be switched to the low-power consumption operating state, in order to reduce the power consumption of the first processing unit 112.
Thus, when judging unit 111, to judge described the first processing unit 112 current in high power consumption operating state, it sends pending signal to described the first processing unit 112, and described pending signal is for being switched to the low-power consumption operating state by described the first processing unit 112.
The first processing unit 112, after receiving this pending signal, again is switched to the low-power consumption operating state from high power consumption operating state, thereby carries out suspended state, in order to only by application processor, complete the protocol processes process of whole data communication.
It should be noted that, although this is in the situation that receives signal of communication, the operation of the mobile phone 300 according to the embodiment of the present invention is described,, those skilled in the art can be understood that, the invention is not restricted to this.But, can be applied to send equally the situation of signal of communication according to the mobile phone 300 of the embodiment of the present invention.
As can be seen here, adopt electronic equipment and communication means thereof according to the embodiment of the present invention, when mobile phone is in voice communication, can realize by communication processor the relevant treatment of voice communication; And, when mobile phone is in data communication, can realize by application processor the relevant treatment of data communication.
Therefore, in an embodiment of the present invention, because often needing the participation of application processor, the data communication that comprises browsing internet or carry out the application such as online chatting by JICQ (for example carries out, the operation JICQ, open any browser, playing network audio frequency and video etc.), so the invention enables application processor to participate directly in the process of encoding and decoding of the protocol analysis of data communication and data-signal, thereby take full advantage of the powerful handling property of application processor, and can further utilize the multinuclear disposal ability of application processor, make the data efficiency that has improved data communication, thereby saved the power consumption of mobile phone.
In addition, embodiments of the invention are for the voice communication part, still in communication processor, realize, make this communication processor arm processor powerful without performance, and only need a very low association's processing unit of dominant frequency just can move the encoding and decoding of protocol analysis and the data-signal of voice communication, thereby reduced the cost of communication processor.
In addition, in an embodiment of the present invention, owing to not needing to realize complete communication protocol stack in communication processor, as long as realize the protocol stack relevant to voice communication, so simplified the exploitation of communication processor.
Hereinbefore, by wherein said the first communication, be that voice communication and described second communication are that the first example of data communication has illustrated embodiments of the invention.Yet, the invention is not restricted to this.
In the second example, preferably, described the first communication can be the first of whole speech and data communication, and described second communication can be the second portion of data communication.
Table 1 shows the description according to the second example of the concrete communication protocol of being resolved by communication processor or application processor of the embodiment of the present invention.
For example, as shown in table 1, the first of described data communication comprises: when described electronic equipment is in idle (IDLE) state, with Radio Resource control (RRC) agreement and communicating by letter that Non-Access Stratum (NAS) agreement is associated.In an embodiment of the present invention, carry out the protocol analysis relevant with whole voice communication to the first of described data communication and encoding and decoding processing by communication processor.
And the second portion of described data communication comprises: the communication of communicating by letter and being associated with the second layer (Layer 2) agreement be associated with the NAS agreement when described electronic equipment is in connected state, with the RRC agreement.In an embodiment of the present invention, the protocol analysis relevant to the second portion of described data communication and encoding and decoding are processed and are realized by application processor.
Wherein, the 3rd layer of (Layer 3) agreement comprises: above-mentioned RRC agreement, above-mentioned NAS agreement and Mobility Management Entity (MME) agreement; And above-mentioned second layer agreement comprises: media access control (MAC) layer, wireless link are controlled (RLC) layer and packet data convergence (PDCP) layer protocol.
Following table 1 shows, and compared with prior art, the present invention moves to application processor by which function from communication processor and processed.
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As can be seen here, adopt electronic equipment and communication means thereof according to the embodiment of the present invention, can be by the RRC in the 3rd layer in protocol stack and NAS during the function of the function under connected state and the whole second layer is fused to application processor.Like this, after communication processor enters connected state, the first processing unit in communication processor directly can be hung up, and be completed whole protocol procedures by application processor.For the conversation part, still in communication processor, realize, but only need first a very low processing unit of dominant frequency just can move RRC and the agreement of NAS part under the IDLE state in protocol stack, and then according to DRX cycle, carry out sleep or wake up, measurement, community under the IDLE state are selected, position is upgraded and monitoring paging etc.And now, application processor can be slept always, until when new incoming call is arranged for showing telephone number, or until the user initiatively interrupt with for the treatment of multimedia application.
Therefore, in an embodiment of the present invention, the powerful disposal ability of application processor gives full play to the role when handle data communication, thereby has increased treatment effeciency, has shortened the processing time, and has further extended the stand-by time of electronic equipment.
Describe each embodiment of the present invention in the above in detail.Yet, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that without departing from the principles and spirit of the present invention, can carry out various modifications to these embodiment, combination or sub-portfolio, and such modification should fall within the scope of the present invention.

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1. an electronic equipment, described electronic equipment comprises communication processor and application processor, it is characterized in that,
Described communication processor comprises:
Judging unit, belong to the first communication or second communication for judging the performed communication of described electronic equipment; And
The first processing unit, for going out the performed communication of described electronic equipment when described judgment unit judges while belonging to the first communication, process and the described first first data of communicating by letter and being associated, and
Described application processor comprises:
The second processing unit, for going out the performed communication of described electronic equipment when described judgment unit judges while belonging to second communication, process the second data that are associated with described second communication.
2. according to the electronic equipment of claim 1, it is characterized in that, described the second processing unit is when processing described the second data, judge that described the first processing unit is in high power consumption operating state or low-power consumption operating state, when judging described the first processing unit in high power consumption operating state, send pending signal to described the first processing unit, described pending signal is for being switched to the low-power consumption operating state by described the first processing unit.
3. according to the electronic equipment of claim 2, it is characterized in that, described judging unit is when judging the performed communication of described electronic equipment and belong to the first communication, judge that described the first processing unit is in high power consumption operating state or low-power consumption operating state, when judging described the first processing unit in the low-power consumption operating state, send wake-up signal to described the first processing unit, described wake-up signal is for being switched to high power consumption operating state by described the first processing unit.
4. according to the electronic equipment of claim 1, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment also comprises:
Memory, the first protocol stack be associated with described the first communication for storage and the second protocol stack be associated with described second communication.
5. according to the electronic equipment of claim 4, it is characterized in that,
Described the first processing unit reads described the first protocol stack from described memory, and utilizes described the first protocol stack to process described the first data, and
Described the second processing unit reads described second protocol stack from described memory, and utilizes described second protocol stack to process described the second data.
6. according to the electronic equipment of claim 1, it is characterized in that, described the first communication is voice communication, and described second communication is data communication.
7. according to the electronic equipment of claim 1, it is characterized in that, described the first communication is the first of speech and data communication, and described second communication is the second portion of data communication.
8. according to the electronic equipment of claim 7, it is characterized in that,
The first of described data communication comprises: when described electronic equipment is in Idle state, with radio resource control RRC agreement and communicating by letter that Non-Access Stratum NAS agreement is associated, and
The second portion of described data communication comprises: the communication of communicating by letter and being associated with second layer agreement be associated with Non-Access Stratum NAS agreement when described electronic equipment is in connected state, with the radio resource control RRC agreement.
9. a communication means, be applied to electronic equipment, and described electronic equipment comprises communication processor and application processor, it is characterized in that, described communication means comprises:
Judge that the performed communication of described electronic equipment belongs to the first communication or second communication;
When the performed communication of described electronic equipment belongs to the first communication, process the first data that are associated with described the first communication by the first processing unit of described communication processor; And
When the performed communication of described electronic equipment belongs to second communication, process the second data that are associated with described second communication by the second processing unit of described application processor.
10. according to the communication means of claim 9, it is characterized in that, described communication means also comprises:
Described the second processing unit, when processing described the second data, judges that described the first processing unit is in high power consumption operating state or low-power consumption operating state; And
When judging described the first processing unit in high power consumption operating state, send pending signal to described the first processing unit, described pending signal is for being switched to the low-power consumption operating state by described the first processing unit.
11. the communication means according to claim 10, is characterized in that, described communication means also comprises:
When judging the performed communication of described electronic equipment and belong to the first communication, judge that described the first processing unit is in high power consumption operating state or low-power consumption operating state; And
When judging described the first processing unit in the low-power consumption operating state, send wake-up signal to described the first processing unit, described wake-up signal is for being switched to high power consumption operating state by described the first processing unit.
12. the communication means according to claim 9, is characterized in that, described communication means also comprises:
The first protocol stack that storage is associated with described the first communication in memory and the second protocol stack be associated with described second communication.
13. the communication means according to claim 12, is characterized in that,
The step that described the first processing unit by described communication processor is processed the first data that are associated with described the first communication comprises:
Described the first processing unit reads described the first protocol stack from described memory; And
Utilize described the first protocol stack to process described the first data, and
The step that described the second processing unit by described application processor is processed the second data that are associated with described second communication comprises:
Described the second processing unit reads described second protocol stack from described memory; And
Utilize described second protocol stack to process described the second data.
14. the communication means according to claim 9, is characterized in that, described the first communication is voice communication, and described second communication is data communication.
15. the communication means according to claim 9, is characterized in that, described the first communication is the first of speech and data communication, and described second communication is the second portion of data communication.
16. the communication means according to claim 15, is characterized in that,
The first of described data communication comprises: when described electronic equipment is in Idle state, with radio resource control RRC agreement and communicating by letter that Non-Access Stratum NAS agreement is associated, and
The second portion of described data communication comprises: the communication of communicating by letter and being associated with second layer agreement be associated with Non-Access Stratum NAS agreement when described electronic equipment is in connected state, with the radio resource control RRC agreement.
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