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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:
Jan. 19, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Harsh B Parikh, Houston, TX (US);
Robert M Crosby, Missouri City, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments, Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
377 26 ; 377 241 ;
Abstract
A non-volatile counter memory is provided by using a gray code scale to store counter values in a plurality of counter memories (34) comprising a counter memory group (38). Each counter memory comprises a plurality of units which store a gray coded value. The weighting of the units is changed after a predetermined number of write operations such that the number of bit transitions is spread out among the units.