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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul Schnizlein, Austin, TX (US);
Alan Hendrickson, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375359 ; 375355 ; 375360 ; 375363 ; 375370 ; 375372 ; 375376 ; 370511 ; 379 60 ; 379 61 ;
Abstract
A method for handling underflow and overflow of data in a FIFO buffer includes steps of inserting an insert data word in the FIFO buffer if there is an underflow of data at the FIFO buffer and discarding a discard data word of the FIFO buffer if there is an overflow of data at the FIFO buffer. In one embodiment, the insert data word is null and does not change the status of the FIFO buffer.