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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2000
William F. Beausoleil, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
R. Bryan Cook, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Tak-kwong NG, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Helmut Roth, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Peter Tannenbaum, Woodstock, NY (US);
Lawrence A. Thomas, West Hurley, NY (US);
Norton J. Tomassetti, Kingston, NY (US);
William F. Beausoleil, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
R. Bryan Cook, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Tak-kwong Ng, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Helmut Roth, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Peter Tannenbaum, Woodstock, NY (US);
Lawrence A. Thomas, West Hurley, NY (US);
Norton J. Tomassetti, Kingston, NY (US);
Quickturn Design Systems Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for determining which of several possible cable lengths has been used by reversing the end-to-end correspondence of at least two conductors in the cable. A different two conductors are selected to identify respective different cable lengths. Each input pin is connected to a correspondingly identified output pin, except for the pair with the outputs reversed, which pair signifies the cable length.