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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2000
Patrick J. Smith, Houston, TX (US);
Tai H. Nguyen, Houston, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
In order to sort signal group elements organized in blocks in a time-division multiplex protocol into frames of related elements, an address unit addresses the first element in each of the element blocks, then the second element in each element block, etc until all of the elements of all of the blocks have been addressed. In this manner, the related elements are sorted into frames of elements. The address unit performs this element sorting using a base address, an element index equal to the number of elements in a block, and a frame index equal to {the number of elements times (the number of frames minus one)} minus one as parameters.