US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on July 22 for "Streaming engine with early and late address and loop count registers to track architectural state" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,150, issued on July 22, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Streaming engine with early and late address and loop count registers to track architectural state" was invented by Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.) and Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming engine employed in a digital data processor specifies a fixed read only data stream defined by plural nested loops. An address generator produces address of data elements. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. The streaming engine stores an early address of ne...