US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Feb. 10 for "Look-up table read" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,406, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Look-up table read" was invented by Naveen Bhoria (Plano, Texas), Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas), Dheera Balasubramanian Samudrala (Richardson, Texas) and Rama Venkatasubramanian (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital data processor includes a multi-stage butterfly network, which is configured to, in response to a look up table read instruction, receive look up table data from an intermediate register, reorder the look up table data based on control signals comprising look up table configuration register data, and write the reordered look up tab...