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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. 28, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a control device, for use on an electronic circuit board, to perform high-speed data transmission bus entrainment. The control device includes a signal processing component acquiring either one of two modes of operation, specifically a diagnostic mode and a bus entrainment diagnostic mode. When in diagnostic mode, the signal processing component performs a diagnostic procedure on the electronic circuit board. When in bus entrainment mode, the signal processing component performs a bus entrainment procedure.