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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1998
Moataz A. Mohamed, Irvine, CA (US);
Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention generally relates to a hybrid VLIW-SIMD programming model for a digital signal processor. The hybrid programming model broadcasts a packet of information to a plurality of functional units or processing elements. Each packet contains several instructions having certain characteristics, such as instruction type and instruction length, among others. The hybrid programming model includes functional units which are reconfigurable based upon the instructions with an instruction packet and the availability of the functional units. The model groups the functional units such that the operations specified in the instructions can be efficiently executed and selects which functional units should be utilized for a given operation.