US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Dec. 16 for "Register file structures combining vector and scalar data with global and local accesses" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,925, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Register file structures combining vector and scalar data with global and local accesses" was invented by Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas), Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas), Mel Alan Phipps (Sugar Land, Texas), Todd T. Hahn (Sugar Land, Texas) and Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The number of registers required is reduced by overlapping scalar and vector registers. This allows increased compiler flexibility when mixing scalar and vector instructions. Local register read ports are reduced by restricting read acc...