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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2008
Timothy M. Platt, Williston, VT (US);
Richard Jean-luc St-pierre, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Timothy M. Platt, Williston, VT (US);
Richard Jean-Luc St-Pierre, Essex Junction, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A circuit and design structure for a streaming digital data filter embodied in a machine readable medium, the design structure including: a data processing unit and a pointer processing unit, the data processing unit and the pointer unit connected to a control logic; the pointer processing unit consisting of n serially connected pointer processing stages from a first to a last pointer processing stage, each pointer processing stage except for the first and last processing stages of the pointer processing unit including a pointer register and a multiplexer, wherein n is a positive integer greater than 2; the data processing unit consisting of n serially connected data processing stages from a first data processing stage to a last data processing stage, each data processing stage including a multiplexer, a data register and a comparator; and one or more filter output stages connected to the data processing unit.