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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:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shakeel Masood, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395439 ; 395404 ; 395431 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
Optical data controller (ODC) and Optical data encoder/decoder (ODE) functions are integrated on a common chip to carry out optical disk drive control. Programming and some circuit functions are shared by the ODC are ODE. Internal marks detection signals and developed by the ODC and ODE and ODE commands are made available on new output pins for external control functions and diagnostics.