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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2004
Joey Y. Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
L. Randall Mote, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Thuji Simon Lin, Irvine, CA (US);
Anders Hebsgaard, Duluth, GA (US);
Joey Y. Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
L. Randall Mote, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Thuji Simon Lin, Irvine, CA (US);
Anders Hebsgaard, Duluth, GA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method that provides an integrated circuit which includes a small on-chip buffer to store collected data, thereby shifting the burden of storing the majority of the collected data to external system memory, which is typically comprised of commodity memory chips. Since this external system memory is already in use by other system functions, utilizing such unused regions of this external memory increases overall hardware efficiency, while achieving lower ASIC manufacturing cost.