US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Sept. 9 for "Streaming engine with variable stream template format" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,766, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Streaming engine with variable stream template format" 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 for the nested loops. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. A stream template specifies loop count and loop dimension for each nested loop. A format definition field in the stream te...