BINARY DATA MANIPULATION NETWORK HAVING MULTIPLE FUNCTION CAPABILITY FOR COMPUTERS

摘要

The present invention is a binary data manipulation network comprising a pair of mask generation networks in a configuration which controls a merge network to allow a first operand to be manipulated by insertion of selected bits from a second operand at a selected position. Each mask generation network produces a result operand consisting of a group of binary ones adjacent to a group of binary zeroes where the break point between ones and zeroes is determined by an input count operand. The two mask generation networks are connected to the merge network in end for end fashion so that, typically, the merge network gates the bits of the first operand as the result operand when the mask generation network result operands are dissimilar and gates the bits of the second operand when the bits of the mask generation network result operands are similar. The apparatus of the present invention also performs other related operations using the network configuration disclosed.