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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
Ajit M. Limaye, Hillboro, OR (US);
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An audio/video processing engine that is programmable for processing digital video and digital audio simultaneously, either in parallel or concurrently, has an audio/video I/O processor that communicates with a single programmable hardware processor having reconfigurable logic blocks. The single programmable hardware processor communicates with both a general purpose processor and an optional digital signal processor for adjunct processing. The general purpose processor has a flash memory for initializing the programmable elements of the audio/video processing engine and has data links for remote accessing for programming, control and monitoring. The flash memory is accessible by the single programmable hardware processor, and may be reloaded remotely via the general purpose processor.