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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2013
Jayakrishnan C. Mundarath, Austin, TX (US);
Leo G. Dehner, Austin, TX (US);
Eric J. Jackowski, Chicago, IL (US);
Jayakrishnan C. Mundarath, Austin, TX (US);
Leo G. Dehner, Austin, TX (US);
Eric J. Jackowski, Chicago, IL (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A comparator () for determining a peak number, representing a maximum or minimum of a set of numbers, includes a multi-element comparator () for comparing different pages of the set of numbers in a page comparison mode to output a candidate set of winning numbers, and for automatically switching to a leaf/tree search of the candidate set of winning numbers in an element comparison mode. Operating in parallel with the multi-element comparator (), an index generation unit () processes flag/sign bits from the multi-element comparator in conjunction with state machine control logic () to keep track of the index/indices for the peak value. Upon completion of final stage, the index generation unit returns the absolute index () of the peak value.