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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Benjamin Francis Froemming, San Jose, CA (US);
Emil Lambrache, Campbell, CA (US);
Inventors:
Benjamin Francis Froemming, San Jose, CA (US);
Emil Lambrache, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
ATMEL Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A set of low-cost microcontroller extensions facilitates Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications by incorporating a Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) unit in a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the microcontroller which is responsive to the extensions.