US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 21 for "Stream engine with element promotion and decimation modes" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,057, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Stream engine with element promotion and decimation modes" 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 operational units for use as operands. A promotion unit optionally increases date element data size by an integral power of 2 either zero filing or sign filling the additional bi...