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Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2011

Filed:

May. 23, 2011
Applicants:

Edwin Franklin Barry, Vilas, NC (US);

Nikos P. Pitsianis, Durham, NC (US);

Kevin Coopman, Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Edwin Franklin Barry, Vilas, NC (US);

Nikos P. Pitsianis, Durham, NC (US);

Kevin Coopman, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/80 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Techniques for providing improved data distribution to and collection from multiple memories are described. Such memories are often associated with and local to processing elements (PEs) within an array processor. Improved data transfer control within a data processing system provides support for radix 2, 4 and 8 fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms through data reordering or bit-reversed addressing across multiple PEs, carried out concurrently with FFT computation on a digital signal processor (DSP) array by a DMA unit. Parallel data distribution and collection through forms of multicast and packet-gather operations are also supported.


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