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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Duncan G. Elliott, Etobicoke, CA;
W. Martin Snelgrove, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Mosaid Technologies Incorporated, Kanata, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/28 ; G06F 9/345 ; G06F 9/302 ; G06F 9/308 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/28 ; G06F 9/345 ; G06F 9/302 ; G06F 9/308 ;
Abstract
A digital computer performs read-modify-write (RMW) processing on each bit of a row of memory in parallel, in one operation cycle, comprising: (a) addressing a memory, (b) reading each bit of a row of data from the memory in parallel, (c) performing the same computational operation on each bit of the data in parallel, using an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) in a dedicated processing element, and (d) writing the result of the operation back into the original memory location for each bit in the row.