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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2003
Applicants:

James M. Norris, Naperville, IL (US);

Philip E. May, Palatine, IL (US);

Kent D. Moat, Winfield, IL (US);

Raymond B. Essick, Iv, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);

Brian G. Lucas, Barrington, IL (US);

Inventors:

James M. Norris, Naperville, IL (US);

Philip E. May, Palatine, IL (US);

Kent D. Moat, Winfield, IL (US);

Raymond B. Essick, IV, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);

Brian G. Lucas, Barrington, IL (US);

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method for calculating memory addresses in a partitioned memory in a processing system having a processing unit, input and output units, a program sequencer and an external interface. An address calculator includes a set of storage elements, such as registers, and an arithmetic unit for calculating a memory address of a vector element dependent upon values stored in the storage elements and the address of a previous vector element. The storage elements hold STRIDE, SKIP and SPAN values and optionally a TYPE value, relating to the spacing between elements in the same partition, the spacing between elements in the consecutive partitions, the number of elements in a partition and the size of a vector element, respectively.


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