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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002

Filed:

Jan. 09, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:

Warren Kurt Howlett, Windsor, CO (US);

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/900 ;
Abstract

M parallel datastreams are interleaved into a serial bitstream and shifted into a staging register, so that bit zeros of all datastreams shift in first and bit (X-1)s last. All bits of the Mth datastream occupy uniformly spaced non-adjacent memory elements interconnected with a target memory device having M memory registers each of width X. The Mth memory register of the memory device is addressed, simultaneously writing all interconnected bits to the Mth memory register within a single clock period. The bitstream is then shifted by one memory element, such that bits of the (M-1)th parallel datastream occupy the interconnected memory elements, the register address decrements, and the interconnected bits are simultaneously written to the (M-1)th register. This process iterates until M registers are written within an elapsed time of M clock periods. Reading occurs essentially in a reverse sequence.


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