Patent ID: 7779229

Claim:
A method for bringing together data from parallel data paths in a processor arrangement, wherein data in a data memory are split and stored in data groups with a plurality of elements under one and the same address, read out from the latter and fed to processing units, wherein each element of a data group is assigned a processing unit and all elements of a data group are read out of the data memory simultaneously and in parallel and distributed as input data to the processing units and in the latter are processed clock-controlled in parallel, the method comprising the step of: directly linking output data from the processing units using at least one operation which is combinatorial and which is not clock-controlled, wherein the using at least one operation comprises using a redundant numerical representation at least one partial step of the operation so that carries in all positions of the data are formed simultaneously and used for the next partial step; and feeding back a produced data element or data group result of the operation into at least one of the processing unit or into a register assigned to this processing unit.