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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. 20, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Erik Rustan Swenson, Campbell, CA (US);
Brian Charles Edem, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341100 ; 341101 ;
Abstract
A circuit to implement a multi-channel parallel to serial conversion and a multi-channel serial to parallel conversion in one minimal RAM Matrix. The number of RAM cells (bits) needed is equivalent to the number of Flip-Flops used in a standard shift register and holding register implementation.