US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Nov. 4 for "Converting a stream of data using a lookaside buffer" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,746, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Converting a stream of data using a lookaside buffer" was invented by Joseph Raymond Michael Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stream of data is accessed from a memory system by an autonomous memory access engine, converted on the fly by the memory access engine, and then presented to a processor for data processing. A portion of a lookup table (LUT) containing converted data elements is preloaded into a lookaside buffer associated with the memory access engine. As the stream of data elements is fetched from the memory system each data el...