Patent 7606848 was granted and assigned to Intel on October, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
One or more detectors are provided for processing input in parallel with a logic component receiving the same input. Apparatus described herein include one or more logic components that are configured to perform logical operations on an input vector, and one or more detectors that are configured to receive a portion of the input vector. The detector is further configured to perform detections on this portion of the input vector in parallel with the logical operation. Methods described herein include identifying a portion of the input vector, wherein the portion of the input vector appears an output of the logic component, and analyzing the portion of the vector in parallel with a logical operation performed by the logic component.