A circuit for selectively performing big-endian/little-endian data format conversion based on whether instructions or data are being transferred. The data and instructions are allocated to different regions in memory so that the big-endian/little-endian conversion is based on the source or destination...http://www.google.de/patents/US5970236?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5970236 - Circuit for selectively performing data format conversion