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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:
Jan. 19, 1999
Filed:
May. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew L Hawkins, Starkville, MS (US);
Muthukumar Nagarajan, Starkville, MS (US);
Ajay Srikrishna, Starkville, MS (US);
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365221 ; 365219 ; 365220 ; 365239 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for writing data onto the read bitline when a FIFO buffer memory is nearly empty that includes circuitry detecting when a memory is nearly empty, when the read pointer and the write pointer are on the same line with the read pointer behind the write pointer. Another circuit writes data onto the read bitline as the data is written into the buffer memory.