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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alain Artieri, Meylan, FR;
Assignee:
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, S.A., Gentilly, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 3642595 ; 3642609 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A data shuffler of the pipeline type receives successive trains of n sequential data words and rearranges data words in each train according to a predetermined order. It comprises p (p.ltoreq.n) elementary processing units arranged in series. Each unit comprises an input, an output, a one-word storage register (20), a steering means (21) in order, in response to a binary control, to connect the input to the output either directly or through the register; and means for periodically supplying to each of the p steering means a sequence of n control bits determined as a function of said predetermined order.