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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 1986
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1984
Wlodzimierz Holsztynski, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Stephen S Wilson, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Environmental Research Institute of MI, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A system particularly suited for serially processing spatially oriented data such as data matrices includes a plurality of serially connected processing cells for performing a number of successive, different operations on the data using pipeline processing techniques. In one embodiment, each unit cell comprises a memory in the form of a shift register for storing data received from the neighboring, upstream cell. The data is transferred from the memory to a time delaying storage medium such as a latch and to a processing circuit which operates on the data and provides data output to the neighboring, downstream cell. In another embodiment, a simple parallel-in, parallel-out latch is employed as the cell memory thereby allowing the processing circuit to simultaneously access all of the data stored in memory. Data is output from the latch in pre-determined groups and is multiplexed to one portion of the processing circuit. One of the data groups output from the latch is delayed by a shift register and then delivered to another portion of the processing circuit which selectively receives data from the first portion. A central controller connected to each cell controls the transfer of data within and between the cells.