Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.

Mark J Erlenborn

Kewei Yang

Welborn R Malpass

Jeff R Gemar

George Finley Harper

Sam L Spencer

Keith A Kind

Incoming bit stream is processed by a single state machine into a circular buffer. Circular buffer accumulates subunits of data to form a major data unit. State machine recognizes the start of major data unit and flags the location of the major data unit in the circular buffer.

Method and apparatus for combined framing and packet delineation

Optical transducers disposed on an integrated circuit correspond to test points thereon. The state of optical transducers perceived by an optical sensor is correlated to test points. Alignment of the optical sensor relative to the optical transducers is accomplished electronically or mechanically.

Method and apparatus for optical probing of integrated circuit operation

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Naperville, IL, United States of America

Mark J Erlenborn