The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1979
Ashok H Someshwar, Richardson, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) incrementing circuit and memory. The incrementing circuit has a small amount of delay associated with it so that it may be utilized as a stage of a shift register memory. The incrementing circuit includes an adder circuit, a sampling circuit and a detector circuit. The sampling circuit samples the most significant bit of a BCD digit when the least significant bit of the same digit is being outputted from the memory. The adder circuit adds one to the least significant bit in response to a control signal or one to the other bits in response to a carry condition in the adder and to a decimal carry signal. The detector circuit is coupled to the output of the memory, to the sampling circuit and to the control signal for generating the decimal carry signal and disabling the adder circuit when the control signal is present and the BCD digit being outputted is a decimal nine.