Patent ID: 6970897

Claim:
A method for transmitting data operands, the method comprising: receiving, on a first set of paths, a first data operand defined by a first encoding scheme; receiving, on a second set of paths, a second data operand defined by the first encoding scheme; redefining the first data operand by a second encoding scheme and transmitting the redefined first data operand onto a third set of paths; redefining the second data operand by the second encoding scheme and transmitting the redefined second data operand onto the third set of paths; processing the redefined first data operand in a self-timed manner; successively processing the redefined second data operand in a self-timed manner; translating the processed first data operand back to the first encoding scheme and transmitting the translated first data operand onto a fourth set of paths; and translating the processed second data operand back to the first encoding scheme and transmitting the translated second data operand onto a fifth set of paths.