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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1994
David L Sprague, Trenton, NJ (US);
Kevin Harney, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Eiichi Kowashi, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Michael Keith, Holland, PA (US);
Allen H Simon, Belle Meade, NJ (US);
Gregory M Papadopoulos, Burlington, MA (US);
Walter P Hays, Brookline, MA (US);
George F Salem, Cambridge, MA (US);
Shih-Wei Shiue, Lexington, MA (US);
Anthony P Bertapelli, Ayer, MA (US);
Vitaly H Shilman, Brookline, MA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for processing data. According to a preferred embodiment, the apparatus comprises a plurality of datapaths, each datapath comprising datapath processor, and a statistical decoder input channel device. The statistical decoder input channel device prefetches variable length encoded data from a variable length encoded data source in response to a request by a program running on a datapath processor of a datapath of the plurality of datapaths. The statistical decoder input channel device comprises a statistical decoder processor and memory for decoding the variable length encoded data to provide fixed length decoded data, and a transmission output channel for transmitting the fixed length decoded data to the datapath.