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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Timothy D Thompson, Windsor, CO (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710100 ; 712229 ; 326 37 ; 326 46 ;
Abstract
A modular state machine, and associated method permits reuse of modular portions of the state machine. Instead of duplicating identical groups of states of the state machine, jumps are provided to a modular portion of the state machine formed of a group of states. The circuit area required to implement the state machine is thereby reduced.