Due to Lexra not licensing the architecture, two lawsuits were started between the two companies.

Lexra also enhanced the MIPS-I instruction set with extensions that greatly enhanced performance for digital signal processing ( DSP ) algorithms.

The second ( about MIPS patent 4814976 for handling unaligned memory access ) was protracted, hurt both companies ' business, and culminated in MIPS Technologies giving Lexra a free license and a large cash payment.

Lexra did not implement those instructions because they are not necessary for good performance in modern software and Silicon Graphics owned a patent that had originally been granted to MIPS Computer Systems Inc. for implementing unaligned loads and stores in a RISC processor and Lexra did not wish to pay a high license fee for permission to use the patent.

MIPS Technologies sued Lexra claiming a trademark infringement for Lexra's claims of compatibility with the MIPS-I instruction set.

In 1999 MIPS Technologies sued Lexra again, but this time for infringing its patents on unaligned loads and stores.

The protracted second lawsuit combined with a downturn in semiconductor industry business forced Lexra into a settlement with MIPS Technologies that included MIPS Technologies paying Lexra a large sum of money and granting Lexra a license to its technologies in exchange for Lexra exiting the IP business.

Lexra failed as a networking / communications fabless semiconductor chip company and ceased operations in January 2003.

The first was quickly resolved when Lexra promised not to advertise their processors as MIPS-compatible.

Lexra was a semiconductor intellectual property core company based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Lexra licensed soft cores unlike ARM Ltd at the time.

Lexra was probably the first semiconductor intellectual property core company to do so.

In 1998 Silicon Graphics spun out MIPS Technologies Inc. as a Semiconductor IP licensing company that would compete directly with Lexra.

Lexra and MIPS Technologies settled the dispute by agreeing that in all public statements Lexra would clearly state that it did not implement unaligned loads and stores.

In the opinion of Lexra, the ability to emulate the function of unaligned loads and stores in software predated the grant of the patent in question and could not be viewed as an infringement of the hardware patent by any reasonable interpretation.

These aspects of earlier IBM processors posed the much greater threat of patent invalidation to MIPS Technologies, compared to the seemingly vacuous MIPS Technologies infringement claim against Lexra.

In its 5. 5 years, Lexra implemented ten processor designs and licensed nine of them as IP cores.

The terms architect and architecture are also used in the disciplines of landscape architecture, naval architecture and often information technology ( for example a software architect ).

The characteristic which distinguishes one register as being the accumulator of a computer architecture is that the accumulator ( if the architecture were to have one ) would be used as an implicit operand for arithmetic instructions.

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.

He is also credited with the first port of the GNU C compiler to the INTEL 386 architecture, used in the original implementation of the Linux kernel.

In 1964 IBM introduced its System / 360 computer architecture which was used in a series of computers that could run the same programs with different speed and performance.

In the most commonly used computer architecture, the CPU consists of two main parts: Control Unit and Arithmetic Logic Unit ( ALU ).

English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.

The Byzantine Empire used Roman and Greek architectural models and styles to create its own unique type of architecture.

* ACT-R, a cognitive architecture used in a large number of research projects.

The chhatri, seen in Indian architecture, fits the definition of a cupola when it is used atop a larger structure.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

Monolithic columns are among the heaviest stones used in architecture.

The three Ancient Greek orders have since been consistently used in neo-classical European architecture.

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The following publications, explorations and thesis projects can be used as a resource to see how crochet is being used within the capacity of architecture.

Yearly, hundreds of millions of IA-32 architecture CPUs are used by this market.

Beaux Arts architecture and garden design ( late 19th and early 20th centuries ) used classic references in a modernized form.

Image: Damascus Khan asad Pacha cropped. jpg | Geometry is used in art and architecture.

Geometry is used extensively in architecture.

Eastern Berlin has a distinctly different visual aspect, partly because of the greater survival of prewar façades and streetscapes, some still showing signs of wartime damage, and partly because of the distinctive style of urban Stalinist architecture used in the GDR.

A computer architecture that used the 6U-220 Eurocard format was Multibus-II which was IEEE 1296.

Corporations should pay added taxes, to be used for educational purposes ( not necessarily of the formal type ).

Merguez sausage is very used in Algeria, but it differs, depending on the region and on the added spices.

As for the materials they used, the WD-2's mask is fabricated with a highly elastic material called Septom, with bits of steel wool mixed in for added strength.

These pits were also used to steam foods by adding heated rocks or embers and then seaweed or corn husks ( or other coverings ) placed on top to steam fish and shellfish as well as vegetables ; potatoes would be added while still in-skin and corn while in-husk, this would later be referred to as a clambake by the colonists.

Fahey contemporary Robbie Basho added elements of Indian classical music and Leo Kottke used a Faheyesque approach to make the first solo steel-string guitar " hit " record.

Their flavor is derived primarily from added flavors rather than from malt and other materials used in fermentation.

There are many variants of the drinks, and many kinds of types are used and ingredients added.

To speed up match play and to provide an added dimension for strategy, a doubling cube is usually used.

In certain Gulf Arab countries, " bachelor " can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin ( due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite ), and a colloquial term " executive bachelor " is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.

In 1935, H. H. James and A. S. Coolidge carried out a calculation on the dihydrogen molecule that, unlike all previous calculation which used functions only of the distance of the electron from the atomic nucleus, used functions which also explicitly added the distance between the two electrons.

Key criteria are the composition of the clay and the temper used in the manufacture of the article under study: temper is a material added to the clay during the initial production stage, and it is used to aid the subsequent drying process.

* Camber-Lift – This marketing name was used to describe Cessna aircraft wings starting in 1972 when the aerodynamics designers at Cessna added a slightly drooped leading edge to the standard NACA 2412 airfoil used on most of the light aircraft fleet.

Traditionally, spices are used both whole and ground ; cooked or raw ; and they may be added at different times during the cooking process to produce different results.

Memory and other devices would be added to the bus using the same address and data pins as the CPU itself used, connected in parallel.

Some instructions were added that were never intended to be used in assembly language but fit well with compiled high level languages.

To do this a " cow " or " pig " adaptor can be added to the end of the condenser, or for better results or for very air sensitive compounds a Perkin triangle apparatus can be used.

The entries can be numbers or expressions ( as happens when the determinant is used to define a characteristic polynomial ); the definition of the determinant depends only on the fact that they can be added and multiplied together in a commutative manner.

Trajan continued Domitian's policy and added two more units to the auxiliary forces of Upper Moesia, and then he used the build up of troops for his Dacian wars.

The Nova 3 of 1975 added two more registers, used to control access to a built-in stack.

In Hungary the title of Doctor used to become a part of the name and was added as such to personal ID documents.

* In some regions, such as the Southern United States, " Doctor " is traditionally added to the first name of people holding doctorates, where it is used in either direct or indirect familiar address.

If a second hanging tom is used, it is 10 " diameter and 8 " deep for fusion, or 13 " diameter and one inch deeper than the 12 " diameter tom otherwise, or very occasionally a 14 " diameter hanging tom is added to the 12 ", both being 8 " deep.