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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1998
Taner Ozcelik, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, San Jose, CA (US);
Yew-Koon Tan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A circuit arrangement and method utilize a distributed extensible processing architecture to allocate various DSP functions or operations between multiple processing cores disposed on an integrated circuit device. Each processing core includes one or more hardwired datapaths to provide one or more DSP operations. Moreover, each processing core includes a programmable controller that controls the operation of each hardwired datapath via a local computer program executed by the controller. Furthermore, the processing cores are coupled to one another over a communications bus to permit data to be passed between the cores and thereby permit multiple DSP operations to be performed on data supplied to the device.