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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark R. Greenstreet, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/00 ; H03M 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/00 ; H03M 5/00 ;
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that keeps track of transitions on signal lines in order to latch a dataword in a stream of datawords. This stream of datawords is generated so that each transition between successive datawords involves a minimum number of transitions on a set of signal lines. During operation, the system monitors the set of signal lines that carries the stream of datawords. Upon detecting a predetermined number of transitions on the set of signal lines, the system waits a fixed time interval to ensure that a dataword is ready to be latched, and then latches the dataword.