Patent ID: 8093485
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A sound processing system, comprising: a 3-D voice engine to receive, from a voice control RAM, a voice control block that specifies how said 3-D voice engine is to process each of a first plurality of sound samples, each of said first plurality of sound samples received by said 3-D voice engine using first prefetch logic integrated into said 3-D voice engine, said first prefetch logic performing prefetch operations, said prefetch operations including sending an instruction to retrieve sound data from an external memory and store the retrieved sound data in a sound data RAM; and, a 2-D voice engine to receive, from said voice control RAM, a voice control block that specifies how said 2-D voice engine is to process each of a second plurality of sound samples, each of said second plurality of sound samples received by said 2-D voice engine using second prefetch logic integrated into said 2-D voice engine, said second prefetch logic performing prefetch operations separately and independently from said first prefetch logic.