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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Adrian P Wise, Bristol, GB;
Kevin D Dewar, Bristol, GB;
Anthony Mark Jones, Bristol, GB;
Martin William Sotheran, Gloucestershire, GB;
Colin Smith, Bristol, GB;
Helen Rosemary Finch, Gloucestershire, GB;
Anthony Peter Claydon, Avon, GB;
Donald William Patterson, Bristol, GB;
Mark Barnes, Wiltshire, GB;
Andrew Peter Kuligowski, Bristol, GB;
William P Robbins, Gloucestrshire, GB;
Nicholas Birch, Bristol, GB;
David Andrew Barnes, Gloucestershire, GB;
Discovision Associates, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A RAM implementation of asynchronous swing buffering is provided in which two buffers are operated asynchronously; one is written while the other is read. Accordingly, this allows for a data stream having a fast rate of through-put to be resynchronized to another rate, while still maintaining a desired rate. In the invention, the write control and read control both have state indicators for communicating which buffer they are using and whether the controls are waiting for access or are, in fact, accessing that buffer.