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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1978
Filed:
May. 13, 1974
Cecil R Gilbreath, Houston, TX (US);
Jimmie L Womble, Houston, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A special purpose hardware peripheral which acts as a high speed auxiliary processor. Read-only memory controllers and floating point arithmetic are used to accurately produce high speed processing of arrays of data, thus effectively increasing the processing power of the minicomputer. The system employs an internal memory of two independent sections with means for parallel (simultaneous) operation; employing one section in conjunction with an arithmetic unit while employing the other section in conjunction with data transfer to and from CPU main memory. Three ROM controllers are employed for controlling this simultaneous operation of the memory, the arithmetic unit and the data transfer to and from CPU main memory.