Motorola Corporation

Ricardo Berger

Yachin Afek

Aviel Livay

Claudine Tordjman

Alexander Joffe

A transition control circuit (2) for controlling the transitions of an output signal, at an output node (8) of a driver circuit, in dependence on the logic state of an input signal at an input node (10). The output signal being switchable between a first logic state and a second logic state. The transition control circuit (2) comprises first means (16) and second means (14). The first means (16) is enabled when the output signal has the first logic state and the input signal has the second logic state, and is disabled when the output signal has the second logic state or the input signal has the first logic state. Once enabled, the first means (16) couples the output node (8) to a first supply line (GNDA) whereby the output signal switches to the second logic state. The second means (14) is enabled when the output signal has the second logic state and the input signal has the second logic state, and is disabled when the output signal has the first logic state or the input signal has the first logic state. Once enabled, the second means (14) couples the output node to a second supply line (GNDB) whereby the output signal is held in the second logic state until the next transition of the input signal.

Transition control circuit for driver circuits

This invention relates to a FIFO memory system (10) comprising a plurality of FIFO memories (20) for handling transmission queues in a serial digital communication system. The memory system comprises a plurality of blocks of memory (20a-c, 21a-e), each of the plurality of FIFO memories being assigned a block (20a) of the plurality of blocks of memory, the unassigned blocks of memory forming a block pool (21a-e). The memory system further comprises memory management means (LLT, PT) for adding at least one of the unassigned blocks of memory from the block pool to a FIFO memory on writing to the FIFO memory whereby the size of the FIFO memory is selectably variable, and for returning a block of memory from a FIFO memory to the block pool once the contents of the block of memory have been read.

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Ramat Hasharon, Israel

Ricardo Berger