US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 24 for "Streaming engine with separately selectable element and group duplication" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,782, issued on June 24, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Streaming engine with separately selectable element and group duplication" 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 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. An element duplication unit optionally duplicates data element an instruction specified number of times. A vector masking un...