US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 14 for "Streaming engine with cache-like stream data storage and lifetime tracking" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,726, issued on July 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Streaming engine with cache-like stream data storage and lifetime tracking" 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. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. The streaming engine fetches stream data ahead of use by the central processing unit core in a stream buffer constructed li...