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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2001
Applicants:
Mark Boike, Plano, TX (US);
Alan Phan, Rowlett, TX (US);
Keith Dang, Lewisville, TX (US);
Charles H. Stewart, Richardson, TX (US);
Inventors:
Mark Boike, Plano, TX (US);
Alan Phan, Rowlett, TX (US);
Keith Dang, Lewisville, TX (US);
Charles H. Stewart, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F015/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is an integrated circuit containing multiple digital signal processors (DSPs). A single host processor interface is also placed on the chip to connect the multiple DSPs to the host. A separate direct memory access (DMA) unit is provided for each DSP to facilitate flow of data to and from a data memory for each DSP. Each DSP also includes an instruction memory.