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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dale E Gulick, Austin, TX (US);
Satoru Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Munehiro Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Manabu Oonishi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignees:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 61 ; 375226 ; 375326 ; 375371 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for averaging pulses in a stream of pulses, which pulses are categorizable into at least two categories, includes structure for isolating the pulses into groupings of pulses, structure for counting the number of pulses of a particular category that occur within a grouping of pulses, and structure for generating an output signal when a predetermined number of pulses of a particular category occur within a grouping of pulses.