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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:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Karl M Fant, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Larry L Kinney, Fridly, MN (US);
Assignee:
Theeus Logic, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395306 ; 395309 ; 395311 ; 39580001 ; 326 36 ; 326 93 ;
Abstract
A NULL convention logic bus includes: a plurality of bus transmission lines; a plurality of NULL convention transmitter ports; and a plurality of NULL convention receiver ports. Each NULL convention transmitter port propagates alternating wavefronts of data an NULL across the bus transmission lines to a NULL convention receiver port. A pipeline bus includes NULL convention storage registers at the transmitter ports. A FIFO pipeline bus includes NULL convention storage registers at the receiver ports.