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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1982
Donald C Boothroyd, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Robert W Norman, Jr, Glendale, AZ (US);
Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an alignment network for aligning data words having a plurality of data word formats. A plurality of shifters are utilized, each shifter utilized to shift the corresponding bit of each character. When the output data word format is different from the input data word format, selected characters in response to a predetermined control signal are temporarily stored so that they may be inputted to the shifters on the next shift cycle in order to achieve the desired shifted character order. An alignment switch then aligns or packs the shifted data from the output of the shifters to the predetermined data format in response to a select control signal.