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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gregg S Kodra, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
SigmaTel, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ; G06F 1/717 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ; G06F 1/717 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting an overflow in a data stream include processing that begins by monitoring content of a stream of data. As the content of the stream of data is being monitored, the processing provides a word length signal that has a rate corresponding to a word rate of the stream of data. When the content of the stream of data is in a first logic state for an interval between the word length signal and a previous word length signal, the processing provides an overflow indication.