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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1998
Steven B. Bibyk, Columbus, OH (US);
Neoprobe Corporation, Dublin, OH (US);
Abstract
A program controlled integrated circuit having an input path for receiving an analog signal with given attributes and using a program controlled sequence of treatment stages to generate a bit-defined information vector. That vector is introduced to a distributed memory matching array where it is compared with conveyed instruction set having bit-defned codewords corresponding with an analog signal attribute. A match process under the control of a central control unit then develops a digital result. The digital result may be utilized or converted to analog form in an analog return path. Both the input path and the return path incorporate a reduced instruction set computing arithmetic unit under the control of the central control unit.