US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 21 for "Streaming engine with error detection, correction and restart" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,120, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Streaming engine with error detection, correction and restart" was invented by Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.) and Timothy Anderson (University Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to a streaming engine employed in, for example, a digital signal processor. A fixed data stream sequence including plural nested loops is specified by a control register. The streaming engine includes an address generator producing addresses of data elements and a steam head register storing data elements next to be supplied as operands. The strea...