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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1991
Marshall R Goldberg, Mason, NH (US);
Mitchell N Rosich, Acton, MA (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for processing a stream of bits including a hardware comparator that compares first predetermined bits of the stream, comparison input means to provide a table of comparison values to said hardware comparator for comparison with said predetermined bits of said stream, the comparison input means being programmmable to provide one of a plurality of different tables in response to a table select control signal, an index generator for generating an index based on the states of the predetermined bits, and a processor for accessing the index and processing a group of the bits in at least one of a plurality of different ways based on the index.