Abstract:
A BiCMOS logic circuit utilizes an emitter-coupled pair of bipolar transistors for differentially comparing an input signal with a logic reference level. Each of the bipolar transistors are resistively loaded by a p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor. An emitter follower, having its base coupled to the collector of one of the bipolar transistors and its collector connected to the first power supply potential, provides the output signal. NMOS transistors are used as current sources for biasing the emitter-coupled pair and the emitter follower. A circuit means provides a feedback signal coupled to the gates of the PMOS transistors for dynamically controlling the load resistance presented to said emitter coupled pair.
Abstract:
Expandably wide operations are disclosed in which operands wider than the data path between a processor and memory are used in executing instructions. The expandably wide operands reduce the influence of the characteristics of the associated processor in the design of functional units performing calculations, including the width of the register file, the processor clock rate, the exception subsystem of the processor, and the sequence of operations in loading and use of the operand in a wide cache memory.
Abstract:
A general purpose, programmable media processor (12) for processing and transmitting a media data streams. The media processor (12) incorporates an execution unit (100) that maintains substantially peak data through out of media data streams. The execution unit (100) includes a dynamically partionable multi-precision arithmetic unit (102), programmable switch (104) and programmable extended mathematical element (106). A high bandwidth external interface (124) supplies media data streams at substantially peak rates to a general purpose register file (110) and the execution unit. A memory management unit, and instruction and data cache/buffers (118, 120) are provided. The general purpose, programmable media processor (12) is disposed in a network fabric consisting of fiber optic cable, coaxial cable and twisted pair wires to transmit, process and receive single or unified media data streams.
Abstract:
A general purpose, programmable media processor (12) for processing and transmitting a media data streams. The media processor (12) incorporates an execution unit (100) that maintains substantially peak data through out of media data streams. The execution unit (100) includes a dynamically partionable multi-precision arithmetic unit (102), programmable switch (104) and programmable extended mathematical element (106). A high bandwidth external interface (124) supplies media data streams at substantially peak rates to a general purpose register file (110) and the execution unit. A memory management unit, and instruction and data cache/buffers (118, 120) are provided. The general purpose, programmable media processor (12) is disposed in a network fabric consisting of fiber optic cable, coaxial cable and twisted pair wires to transmit, process and receive single or unified media data streams.
Abstract:
A general purpose processor with four copies of an access unit, with an access instruction fetch queue A-queue (101-104). Each A-queue (101-104) is coupled to an access register file AR (105-108) which is coupled to two access functional units A (109-116). In a typical embodiment, each thread of the processor may have on the order of sixty-four general purpose registers. The access unit functions independently by four simultaneous threads of execution, and each compute control flow by performing arithmetic and branch instructions and access memory by performing load and store instructions. These access units also provide wide specifiers for wide operand instructions. These eight access functional units A (109-116) produce results for access register files (105-108) and memory addresses to a shared memory system (117-120).
Abstract:
A programmable processor and method for improving the performance of processors by expanding at least two source operands, or a source and a result operand, to a width greater than the width of either the general purpose register or the data path width. The present invention provides operands which are substantially larger than the data path width of the processor by using the contents of a general purpose register to specify a memory address at which a plurality of data path widths of data can be read or written, as well as the size and shape of the operand. In addition, several instructions and apparatus for implementing these instructions are described which obtain performance advantages if the operands are not limited to the width accessible number of general purpose registers.
Abstract:
A general purpose, programmable media processor (12) for processing and transmitting a media data streams. The media processor (12) incorporates an execution unit (100) that maintains substantially peak data through out of media data streams. The execution unit (100) includes a dynamically partionable multi-precision arithmetic unit (102), programmable switch (104) and programmable extended mathematical element (106). A high bandwidth external interface (124) supplies media data streams at substantially peak rates to a general purpose register file (110) and the execution unit. A memory management unit, and instruction and data cache/buffers (118, 120) are provided. The general purpose, programmable media processor (12) is disposed in a network fabric consisting of fiber optic cable, coaxial cable and twisted pair wires to transmit, process and receive single or unified media data streams.
Abstract:
A programmable processor and method for improving the performance of processors by expanding at least two source operands, or a source and a result operand, to a width greater than the width of either the general purpose register or the data path width. The present invention provides operands which are substantially larger than the data path width of the processor by using the contents of a general purpose register to specify a memory address at which a plurality of data path widths of data can be read or written, as well as the size and shape of the operand. In addition, several instructions and apparatus for implementing these instructions are described which obtain performance advantages if the operands are not limited to the width accessible number of general purpose registers.
Abstract:
A system for processing streams of media data in a wireless bi-directional communications network. The system is capable of transmitting and receiving at least one stream of media data comprising a combination of at least two of audio, video, radio, graphics, encryption, authentication, and networking information to and from system devices. The system devices each have at least one programmable media processor (12) for receiving, processing and transmitting the stream of media data over the bi-directional communications network. The processor executes group instructions to read a plurality of data elements of the media data stream from a register file (110), to perform, on the data elements, group operations including both group integer and group floating point operations capable of dynamically partitioning the data by each specifying one of a plurality of data element sizes, and to write concatenated results in the register file.