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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2024
Applicant:
Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Alan Geist, Gladstone, OR (US);
Assignee:
Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 (2006.01); G06F 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 (2013.01); G06F 5/10 (2013.01); G06F 2205/102 (2013.01);
Abstract
A Gray code counter is enabled to increment by greater than one and still obey a rule of only one bit of change. The Gray code counter has applicability, for example, with use with an arbiter to control a multi-input asynchronous FIFO usable to synchronize data transfers between asynchronous source and destination clock domains.