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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1999
Kevin F. Jennings, Novi, MI (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
A serial load controller and method for loading at least one input data bit serially into a memory. The memory is interfaced to a data bus and an address bus. The serial load controller includes a counter generating an internal address pointer signal in response to a first control signal. The first control signal indicates that the input data bit is to be transferred serially into the memory. The counter is responsive to the first control signal to reset the internal address pointer to an initial value. A multiplexer is coupled to select one of the address bus and the internal address pointer signal as an output address bus in response to the first control signal. Suitable transceivers or other bus drivers are provided for driving at least a first input data bit onto the data bus in response to the clock pulse.