Patents by Inventor Gregory Thornton

Gregory Thornton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Bit field selection instruction
    Publication number: 20070124631
    Abstract: A digital signal processor having a generalized bit field extraction instruction which can be used to perform a bit field selection operation, a rotate left operation, a rotate right operation, a shift left operation, a logical shift right operation, an arithmetic shift right operation, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Darrell Boggs, Chad Fogg, Gregory Thornton, Tyler Anderson
  • Byte-wise permutation facility configurable for implementing DSP data manipulation instructions
    Publication number: 20070106882
    Abstract: A digital signal processor having a generalized byte-wise data movement permute facility configurable at the microarchitectural level to execute a variety of ISA-level byte-wise data manipulation instructions. A bit-wise data manipulation facility is also provided. By combining the two, the bit-wise facility can be greatly simplified without sacrificing ISA-level functionality of bit-wise data manipulation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventor: Gregory Thornton
  • Bit-wise operation followed by byte-wise permutation for implementing DSP data manipulation instructions
    Publication number: 20070106881
    Abstract: A digital signal processor having a generalized byte-wise data movement permute facility configurable at the microarchitectural level to execute a variety of ISA-level byte-wise data manipulation instructions. A bit-wise data manipulation facility is also provided. By combining the two, the bit-wise facility can be greatly simplified without sacrificing ISA-level functionality of bit-wise data manipulation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventor: Gregory Thornton