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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000

Filed:

Jun. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Moshe Tarrab, Holon, IL;

Eytan Engel, Rosh-Haain, IL;

Eli Borowitz, Kiryat Ono, IL;

Leonid Belotserkovsky, Haifa, IL;

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39580001 ; 377 72 ; 380 46 ;
Abstract

According to the present invention, an LFSR (300) has a propagation path (30) of serially coupled stages (65) and gates (80-3, 80-4), a feedforward path (10) of gates (80-1) and a feedback path (20) of gates (80-2). Depending on control signals (P, B, M), the gates (80-1, 80-2, 80-3, 80-4) are either active gates and operate as xor-gates or passive gates and operate as transfer gates. Feedforward and feedback signals are derived from input and output signals and can be supplied to any stage (65), so that characteristic polynomials of the input-output function are variable. The LFSR can fully or partly operate as a TYPE 1 or TYPE 2 LFSR which enables the execution of different algorithms on one hardware base.


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