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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1999
Jeanne Krayer Pitz, Richardson, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An interface circuit ( ) for use in a read channel of mass data storage device and which is synchronous with a clock (CLK ) of the mass data storage device operates to receive data ( ) coming into the circuit ( ) controlled by an associated controller. The circuit ( ) is easily configurable to process either a full word length at once, or by half-word portions. In the half-word mode, the data coming into the circuit is clocked into one of three data registers ( ). When a flag (NZH, NZL) that indicates that data is starting is detected, the phase of the received data with respect to the clock is determined by comparing ( ) the phase of the full word clock (CLK ) to the phase of a half-word clock (CLK ). If the clocks are in-phase, the first two registers ( ) are selected to contain respective halves of the data word. If the clocks are out-of-phase, the second two registers ( ) are selected to contain the respective halves of the data word. The word halves are directed by multiplexers to output registers ( ) for delivery to the channel ( ) of the mass data storage device.