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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2002
Sumit Anil Talwalkar, Plantation, FL (US);
Charles Leroy Sobchak, Davie, FL (US);
Mahibur Rahman, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Sumit Anil Talwalkar, Plantation, FL (US);
Charles Leroy Sobchak, Davie, FL (US);
Mahibur Rahman, Lake Worth, FL (US);
FreeScale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A signal processing apparatus preferably suitable for implementation as an integrated circuit, that is arranged and constructed to be shared for processing a plurality of signals without interference between the signals and method thereof, the signal processing apparatus comprising: an input multiplexer for sequentially selecting from among the plurality of signals to provide a sequence of selected signals; a processing unit for processing the sequence of selected signals to provide a sequence of processed signals, the processing unit having an input coupled to the input multiplexer and a delay stage including a plurality of series coupled delay elements with one delay element corresponding to each of the plurality of signals; and an output de-multiplexer for sequentially selecting from the sequence of processed signals to provide a plurality of processed signals corresponding one to one with the plurality of signals.