US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for permuting streamed data elements" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,758, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and apparatus for permuting streamed data elements" was invented by Soujanya Narnur (Austin, Texas), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas), Mujibur Rahman (Plano, Texas) and Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes receiving, in a permute network, a plurality of data elements for a vector instruction from a streaming engine, and mapping, by the permute network, the plurality of data elements to vector locations for execution of the vector instruction by a vector functional unit in a v...