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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 1997
Filed:
May. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Carl Bonke, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Trinh Bui, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stanley Chang, Irvine, CA (US);
Joanne Wu, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Phong Tran, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395840 ; 395384 ; 395595 ; 395825 ; 364737 ; 371 30 ;
Abstract
An intelligent disk drive having error detection and correction capability employs an embedded error correction controller with a pipelined architecture for performing error correction under program control. The pipelined architecture provides parallel operand fetching and instruction execution for high speed operations during error correction.