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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1994
Donald C Anderson, Austin, TX (US);
Peter C Curtis, Austin, TX (US);
Gregg S Kodra, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
In a decoding apparatus (100), overflow conditions can be determined within the same clock cycle by determining the type of operation to be performed. For time sensitive operations, a load (102) and a discharge device (105) are temporarily coupled to a dynamic decoding structure (101) of the decoding apparatus (100). The load (102) and the discharge device (105) allow the decoding apparatus (100) to stabilize within a first clock phase (114) of a clock cycle. Thus, the second phase (113) of the clock cycle can be used to determine whether an overflow condition has occurred. For non-time sensitive operations, a precharge device (104) and the discharge device (105) are operably coupled to the dynamic decoding structure (101), while the load (102) is disabled.