Motorola Corporation

Brian Jeffrey Lucas

Ali Saidi

Philip E May

Kent Donald Moat

Raymond Brooke Essick, Iv

Silviu Chiricescu

James M Norris

Michael Allen Schuette

A memory interface device ( ) providing a fractional address interface between a data processor ( ) and a memory system ( ) and a method for retrieving intermediate data values from a memory system using fractional addressing. The device includes an address generator ( ) for generating first and second memory addresses, the first memory address being less than or equal to a specified fractional address, the second memory address being greater than or equal to the fractional address. The device also includes a memory access unit ( ) coupled to the address generator ( ) for retrieving first and second data values from the memory system ( ) at the first and second memory addresses, respectively. The device also includes a data access unit ( ) for interpolating between the first and second data values and passing the interpolated value to the data processor ( ). The memory interface has application in a variety of data processing systems, including digital signal processors and streaming vector processors.

Memory interface with fractional addressing

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Barrington, IL, United States of America

Brian Jeffrey Lucas