Kenneth W Welch

US Patent:

7757051, Jul 13, 2010

Filed:

May 20, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/850266

Inventors:

Sang Van Tran - Encinitas CA, US
Kenneth L. Welch - Alpine CA, US

Assignee:

Broadcom Corporation - Irvine CA

International Classification:

G06F 12/06

US Classification:

711154, 711170, 711120

Abstract:

A system and method for processing data (e. g. , encoded audio data in an audio decoder). Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first memory module comprising a first software module and a second software module. A signal-processing module may comprise a processor and local memory. A first data segment may be received, and the processor may identify the first software module for processing the first data segment. The first software module may be transferred to the local memory and executed by the processor to process the first data segment. A second data segment may be received, and the processor may identify the second software module for processing the second data segment. The second software module may be transferred to the local memory in memory space formerly occupied by the first software module. The processor may then utilize the second software module to process the second data segment.

US Patent:

20060020935, Jan 26, 2006

Filed:

Jul 2, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/884708

Inventors:

Sang Tran - Encinitas CA, US
Kenneth Welch - Alpine CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717162000, 717143000

Abstract:

A system and method for decoding data (e.g., decoding audio data in an audio decoder) utilizing dynamic code reconfiguration. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise identifying a data frame to process. Such identification may, for example, comprise selecting a data frame from a plurality of input channels. A processing task may be selected from a plurality of processing tasks. Such a processing task may, for example, comprise data parsing, decoding, combined parsing and decoding, and a variety of other tasks. Software instructions corresponding to the selected processing task may be identified and loaded from a first memory module into a local memory module and executed to process the identified data frame. The first memory module may, for example, comprise memory external to a signal-processing module, and the local memory module may, for example, comprise memory internal to the signal-processing module.