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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1996
David Cyrille Babin, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing serially shifted data to a plurality of registers (51 through 56) begins by providing an enable signal (14). A first time portion of the enable signal (14) is either asserted or pulsed in order to provide a bank select control signal to a bank select circuit (74). After providing the bank select information, the enable (14) is activated in order to enable the storage of serial input data within a register (40). While data is being provided via a data input (16) to the register (40), a monitoring circuit (72) is recording the number of clocks (12) required to provide the entire sequence data into the register (40). A combination of the decoding information provided by the bank select circuit (74) and the monitoring circuit (72) allows one of a plurality of registers to be written with the data from register (40) even when the registers (51 through 56) are of a same size.