Adaptive instruction processing by array processor having processor identification and data dependent status registers in each processing element

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Equipping individual processing elements with instruction derivation means provides an array processor with adaptive spatial-dependent and datadependent processing capability. The instruction becomes variable at the, processing element level, in response to spatial and data parameters of the data stream. An array processor can be optimized for example, to carry out, very different instructions on spatial-dependent data such as blank margin surrounding the black lines of a sketch. Similarly the array processor can be, optimized for data-dependent values for example to execute different in-, structions for positive data values than for negative data values. Providing each processing element …