Apparatus and method for signal aggregation in an information handling system

1. An information handling system, comprising:

a first hardware subsystem including a first aggregator unit; and

a second hardware subsystem coupled to the first aggregator unit via a first aggregated signal line;

the first aggregator unit configured to:

receive a first signal and a second signal, the first signal and the second signal are different types of signals;

aggregate, based upon a first aggregation algorithm, the first signal and the second signal to create a first aggregated signal, the first aggregation algorithm aggregates the first signal and the second signal based on a specific type of each signal;

provide the first aggregated signal to the second hardware subsystem via the first aggregated signal line;

a second aggregated signal line coupled to the first aggregator unit and a second aggregator unit of the second hardware subsystem;

the second aggregator unit configured to:

receive a third signal and a fourth signal, the third signal and the fourth signal are different types of signals;

aggregate, based upon a second aggregation algorithm, the third signal and the fourth signal to create a second aggregated signal, the second aggregation algorithm aggregates the third signal and the fourth signal based on a specific type of each signal; and

provide the second aggregated signal to the first hardware subsystem via the second aggregated signal line.

2. The information handling system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a second aggregated signal line coupled to the first aggregator unit and a second aggregator unit of the second hardware subsystem;

the first aggregator unit further configured to:

receive, via the second aggregated signal line, a second aggregated signal from the second aggregator unit; and

de-aggregate the second aggregated signal to recover a third signal and a fourth signal, the de-aggregation is based on an inverse of a second aggregation algorithm utilized by the second aggregator unit to create the second aggregated signal, and the third signal and the fourth signal are different types of signals.

3. The information handling system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a second aggregator unit of the second hardware subsystem configured to:

receive, via the first aggregated signal line, the first aggregated signal from the first aggregator unit; and

de-aggregate the first aggregated signal to recover the first signal and the second signal, the de-aggregation is based on an inverse of the first aggregation algorithm.

4. The information handling system of claim 1 , the first aggregator unit further comprises:

an aggregated signal transmitter being configured to provide the first aggregated signal.

5. The information handling system of claim 2 , the first aggregator unit further comprises:

an aggregated signal receiver being configured to receive the second aggregated signal.

6. The information handling system of claim 4 , wherein the aggregated signal transmitter comprises at least one of a high-speed serial link, a multi-level digital transmission link, and a high-speed serializer/deserializer device.

7. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the first aggregation algorithm comprises at least one of a signal modulation algorithm, a digital signal processing algorithm, an audio/video compression algorithm, an audio/video de-compression algorithm, a digital image processing algorithm, an encryption/de-encryption algorithm, an analog to digital conversion algorithm, and a digital to analog conversion algorithm.

8. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the first aggregated signal line comprises at least one of a twisted pair transmission line, a coaxial cable, an optical fiber cable, a differential transmission line, a wireless short-haul cable, a radio-frequency transmission line, a high-speed data bus, a parallel line, a ladder line, a strip-line, a stepped transmission line, and a micro-strip.

9. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the first signal and the second signal comprise at least one of a power management control signal, a power management monitoring signal, an asynchronous signal, a sideband signal, a video signal, a camera signal, a digital signal, a digital audio signal, an out of band signal, a control strobe, a wireless signal, a camera control power state management signal, a low voltage differential signal, a low voltage alternating current coupled differential signal, a time domain signal, and a space domain signal.

10. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the first hardware subsystem and the second hardware subsystem comprise at least one of a laptop computer base subsystem and an associated liquid crystal display lid-up structure subsystem, a mobile phone computing device base subsystem and a human interfaces structure subsystem, a tablet computer base subsystem and a display structure subsystem, and a database server subsystem and a web server subsystem.

11. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the first aggregator unit comprises at least one of a field programmable gate array, a complex programmable logic device, an application-specific integrated circuit, a high-performance reconfigurable computing device, a hybrid-core computing device, a reconfigurable data path array, a mixed signal integrated circuit, and a fixed logic device.

12. A method comprising:

receiving, by a first aggregator unit of a first subsystem of an information handling system, a first signal and a second signal, the first signal and the second signal are different types of signals;

aggregating, by the first aggregator unit, based upon a first aggregation algorithm, the first signal and the second signal to create a first aggregated signal, the first aggregation algorithm aggregates the first signal and the second signal based on a specific type of each signal;

providing, by the first aggregator unit, the first aggregated signal to a second subsystem of the information handling system via the first aggregated signal line;

receiving, by a second aggregator unit of the second subsystem, a third signal and a fourth signal, the third signal and the fourth signal are different types of signals;

aggregating, by the second aggregator unit, based upon a second aggregation algorithm, the third signal and the fourth signal to create a second aggregated signal, the second aggregation algorithm aggregates the third signal and the fourth signal based on a specific type of each signal; and

providing, by the second aggregator unit, the second aggregated signal to the first subsystem via the second aggregated signal line.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

receiving, by the first aggregator unit, via a second aggregated signal line, a second aggregated signal from a second aggregator unit of the second subsystem; and

de-aggregating, by the first aggregator unit, the second aggregated signal to recover a third signal and a fourth signal, the de-aggregation is based on an inverse of a second aggregation algorithm utilized by the second aggregator unit to create the second aggregated signal, and the third signal and the fourth signal are different types of signals.

14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

receiving, by a second aggregator unit of the second subsystem, via the first aggregated signal line, the first aggregated signal from the first aggregator unit; and

de-aggregating, by the second aggregator unit, the first aggregated signal to recover the first signal and the second signal, the de-aggregation is based on an inverse of the first aggregation algorithm.

15. An information handling system, comprising:

a first aggregator hardware unit coupled to a first aggregated signal line and a second aggregated signal line to:

receive a first signal and a second signal;

aggregate, based upon a first aggregation algorithm, the first signal and the second signal to create a first aggregated signal, the first aggregation algorithm aggregates the first signal and the second signal based on a specific type of each signal;

provide the first aggregated signal over the first aggregated signal line;

receive a second aggregated signal over the second aggregated signal line;

de-aggregate, based upon an inverse of a second aggregation algorithm, the second aggregated signal to recover a third signal, the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal are different types of signals:

a second aggregator hardware unit coupled to the first aggregated signal line and the second aggregated signal line to:

receive the third signal;

aggregate, based upon the second aggregation algorithm, the third signal to create the second aggregated signal, the second aggregation algorithm aggregates the third signal based on the specific type of the signal;

provide the second aggregated signal over the second aggregated signal line;

receive the first aggregated signal over the first aggregated signal line; and

de-aggregate, based upon an inverse of the first aggregation algorithm, the first aggregated signal to recover the first signal and the second signal.

16. The information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the first aggregator hardware unit comprises:

an aggregated signal transmitter configured to provide the first aggregated signal; and

an aggregated signal receiver configured to receive the second aggregated signal.

17. The information handling system of claim 15 , wherein the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal comprise at least one of a power management control signal, a power management monitoring signal, an asynchronous signal, a sideband signal, a video signal, a camera signal, a digital signal, a digital audio signal, an out of band signal, a control strobe, a wireless signal, a camera control power state management signal, a low voltage differential signal, a low voltage alternating current coupled differential signal, a time domain signal, and a space domain signal.