US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Nov. 4 for "Streaming engine with early exit from loop levels supporting early exit loops and irregular loops" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,744, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Streaming engine with early exit from loop levels supporting early exit loops and irregular loops" 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. Upon a stream break instruction specifying one of the nested loops, the stream engine ends a current i...