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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:
May. 29, 2007

Filed:

Feb. 02, 2004
Applicants:

Fabio Campi, Bologna, IT;

Mario Toma, Bologna, IT;

Andrea Lodi, Castel San Pietro, IT;

Andrea Cappelli, Faenza, IT;

Roberto Canegallo, Tortona, IT;

Roberto Guerrieri, Bologna, IT;

Inventors:

Fabio Campi, Bologna, IT;

Mario Toma, Bologna, IT;

Andrea Lodi, Castel San Pietro, IT;

Andrea Cappelli, Faenza, IT;

Roberto Canegallo, Tortona, IT;

Roberto Guerrieri, Bologna, IT;

Assignee:

STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 15/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A digital embedded architecture, includes a microcontroller and a memory device, suitable for reconfigurable computing in digital signal processing and comprising: a processor, structured to implement a Very Long Instruction Word elaboration mode by a general purpose hardwired computational logic, and an additional data elaboration channel comprising a reconfigurable function unit based on a pipelined array of configurable look-up table based cells controlled by a special purpose control unit, thus easing the elaboration of critical kernels algorithms.


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