Barrel shifter
CA 1270534 C · Owner: Fujitsu Limited · Inventors: Ito, Akira
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A barrel shifter including a first bit reverse unit which reverses the bit position of all bits of input data or passes the bit positions to leave them as they are; a bit shift unit which shifts output bits from the first bit reverse unit in one fixed direction by exactly the number of bits to be shifted; and a second bit reverse unit which reverses the bit position of all bits of input data or passes the bit positions to leave them as they are, to produce the desired output data. Thus even if there is an increase of the number of bits of the input data, the hardware structure and control do not become complicated and the use of ICs is made easy.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted June 19, 1990. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 19, 2007.
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