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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001

Filed:

May. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Christopher Neal Hinds, Austin, TX (US);

David Vivian Jaggar, Austin, TX (US);

David Terrence Matheny, Austin, TX (US);

David James Seal, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/578 ; G06F 9/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/578 ; G06F 9/30 ;
Abstract

A floating point unit having a register bank containing a plurality of registers supports vector operations that execute a specified operation a plurality of times upon a sequence of data values form different registers. The register bank is divided into subsets and with the sequence of registers used in a vector operation wrapping within a subset. The subsets comprise disjoint, contiguous ranges of register numbers. The wrapping within ranges allows compact code and efficient to be provided for performing DSP operations, such as FIR filtering and matrix transformations.


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