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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:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
William K Stewart, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Ikos Systems, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
326 86 ; 326 90 ; 326 82 ; 326 21 ;
Abstract
In a digital circuit, a method for avoiding a bus contention condition which results from an overlap of active phases of multiple bus drivers. The method avoids such bus contention condition by including holding amplifiers in the data bus and by turning on respective bus drivers only for durations sufficient to establish a data value on the data bus.