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Integrated circuit including fully testable small scale read only memory constructed of level sensitive scan device shift register latches

Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1996-08-21
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Granted: 1997-12-02
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Expires: 2016-08-21
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Abstract

Abstract Disclosed is an integrated microprocessor chip. The chip includes a digital video decoder Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform element and an on chip Read Only Memory. The on chip Read Only Memory includes (a) a shift register latch for receiving data from off chip pull-up resistors, (b) a register for storing data, (c) a selector and a decoder for selecting memory cells to be read from the register, and (d) a Read Only Memory data output.

Inventors

  • 👤 Louis Christopher Milano
  • 👤 Michael Patrick Vachon

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F17/00; G06F17/10; G06F17/14; G06F17/147; H; H04; H04N; H04N19/00; H04N19/42; H04N19/60; H04N19/61; H04N17/00; H04N17/004

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim 271 words
A microprocessor chip comprising: (1) a digital video decoder including a. a first Huffman decoder for receiving variable length encoded digital video data and expanding the data; b. an inverse quantizer for receiving data from the first Huffman decoder and dequantizing the data; c. an inverse discrete cosine transformer for receiving dequantizied data from the inverse quantizer and inverse discrete cosine transforming the data; d. a second Huffman decoder for receiving variable length encoded digital video data and expanding the data; e. a motion compensator for receiving data from (i) the second Huffman decoder, and (ii) a past frame storage and a future frame storage, and forming motion compensated image data therefrom; f. a summer for summing image data from the motion compensator and the inverse discrete cosine transformer; and g. said past frame storage and said future frame storage, both receiving inverse discrete cosine transformed data from the summer; and (2) an on-chip shift register latch Read Only Memory as a look-up memory for the inverse discrete cosine transformer, said shift register latch Read Only Memory comprising: a. a first shift register latch for receiving input data from a pull-up resistor; b. a second shift register latch adapted for use as a read only memory cell for storing the input data from the first shift register latch; c. a selector and ROM address decoder for selecting shift register latch memory cells to be read from the shift register latch Read Only Memory to the inverse discrete cosine transformer; and d. a Read Only Memory data output from the shift register latch Read Only Memory to the inverse discrete cosine transformer.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 271 words
A microprocessor chip comprising: (1) a digital video decoder including a. a first Huffman decoder for receiving variable length encoded digital video data and expanding the data; b. an inverse quantizer for receiving data from the first Huffman decoder and dequantizing the data; c. an inverse discrete cosine transformer for receiving dequantizied data from the inverse quantizer and inverse discrete cosine transforming the data; d. a second Huffman decoder for receiving variable length encoded digital video data and expanding the data; e. a motion compensator for receiving data from (i) the second Huffman decoder, and (ii) a past frame storage and a future frame storage, and forming motion compensated image data therefrom; f. a summer for summing image data from the motion compensator and the inverse discrete cosine transformer; and g. said past frame storage and said future frame storage, both receiving inverse discrete cosine transformed data from the summer; and (2) an on-chip shift register latch Read Only Memory as a look-up memory for the inverse discrete cosine transformer, said shift register latch Read Only Memory comprising: a. a first shift register latch for receiving input data from a pull-up resistor; b. a second shift register latch adapted for use as a read only memory cell for storing the input data from the first shift register latch; c. a selector and ROM address decoder for selecting shift register latch memory cells to be read from the shift register latch Read Only Memory to the inverse discrete cosine transformer; and d. a Read Only Memory data output from the shift register latch Read Only Memory to the inverse discrete cosine transformer.

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