US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on April 29 for "Stream data unit with multiple head registers" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,069, issued on April 29, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Stream data unit with multiple head registers" was invented by Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming engine employed in a digital signal processor specifies a fixed read only data stream. Once fetched the data stream is stored in two head registers for presentation to functional units in the fixed order. Data use by the functional unit is preferably controlled using the input operand fields of the corresponding instruction. A first read only operand coding supplies data from the first head register. A first read/advance ope...