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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chad E. Fogg, Seattle, WA (US);
Nital P. Patwa, San Jose, CA (US);
Parin B. Dalal, Milpitas, CA (US);
Stephen C. Purcell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Korbin Van Dyke, Sunol, CA (US);
Steve C. Hale, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
ATI International SRL, Christchurch, BB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ; G06F 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ; G06F 7/38 ;
Abstract
A method that decodes serially received MPEG variable length codes by executing instructions in parallel. The method includes an execution unit which includes multiple pipelined functional units. The functional units execute at least two of the instructions in parallel. The instructions utilize and share general purpose registers. The general purpose registers store information used by at least two of the instructions.