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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Walter Cerutti, Ivrea, IT;
Gianpiero Bianco, Ivrea, IT;
Olivetti Tecnost S.p.A., Ivrea, IT;
Abstract
This invention relates to a device for converting bit strings from a first resolution to a second resolution suitable for application, in particular, on peripherals such as printers, scanners or facsimile machines. The device comprises a source register in which a string of bits to be converted is stored by a CPU , a destination register from which the CPU extracts the converted string, and a pair of control registers and which cooperate for converting bit by bit the bit strings from the source register to the destination register . The control registers and , the source register and the destination register operate independently from the CPU used and at a clock rate (clk ) greater than that (clk ) of the CPU , thereby permitting extremely fast conversion times.