Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Clock – pulse – or timing signal generation or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-27
2008-05-27
Lee, Thomas (Department: 2115)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Clock, pulse, or timing signal generation or analysis
C718S105000, C718S104000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07380151
ABSTRACT:
The invention is directed to an apparatus, method and system for providing reduced power consumption, fast processing of digitized communication signals and relatively easy reconfiguration for different applications, such as communication protocols/standards. The invention recognizes that the processing of signals associated with different types of communication standards can be recharacterized as deterministic data flows. Also, for each deterministic data flow, several of the same categories of computation are performed in substantially the same manner, albeit in a different order or somewhat differently, that is unique to a particular application. Based on this recharacterization, the invention divides the processing of the deterministic data flow for a communication signal among several Class processors that are separately configurable to optimize their particular category/class of computation in the asynchronous processing of the signal.
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Branch John W.
Darby & Darby PC
Lee Thomas
National Semiconductor Corporation
Tran Vincent T
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