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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:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Narasimha R Nookala, San Jose, CA (US);
Otto Sponring, Los Altos, CA (US);
Kameswaran Sivamani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cirrus Logic, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395821 ; 365 83 ; 365219 ; 39520064 ;
Abstract
A mechanism to effectively retrieve residual data received from a serial data source is provided. As the shift register receives serial data from the serial data source, the activities and content of the shift register is monitored. Status bits are set to reflect the activities and content. These status bits are used to determine whether the shift register contains residual data and whether such residual data should be ignored the serial data received from the serial data source is output to a destination.