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Image processing system including a variable size memory bus

US5825372A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 29, 1994
Grant dateOct 20, 1998
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Expiry dateJun 29, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/61
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system incorporates a processor that includes a data bus having a fixed N-bits size connected to an n-bits word memory through a bus having an n-bits size, where N is a multiple of n, and n is a variable value. The system includes means for, at each execution by the processor of a write instruction of one word of N bits in the memory, successively writing each sub-word of n bits constituting this word of N bits at distinct addresses, and means for, at each execution of a read instruction of a word of N bits in the memory, successively reading in this memory at distinct addresses sub-words of n bits, and juxtaposing these sub-words on the fixed size bus.

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