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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2005
John A. Benavides, Garland, TX (US);
Tyler J. Johnson, Murphy, TX (US);
Ryan Lee Akkerman, Allen, TX (US);
John A. Benavides, Garland, TX (US);
Tyler J. Johnson, Murphy, TX (US);
Ryan Lee Akkerman, Allen, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
One disclosed embodiment may comprise an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC includes memory that stores condition data defining conditions for enabling transitions among a plurality of states and next state data defining a next state associated with each of the respective conditions. A state machine circuit employs the condition data and the next state data to transition from a current state of the state machine circuit to a next state as a function of applying at least one condition relative to input data. The at least one condition is defined by condition data that is associated with the current state. The state machine circuit associates next state data with the at least one condition based on the current state of the state machine circuit. A control circuit provides a trigger signal in response to the current state of the state machine circuit transitioning to at least one predefined state of the plurality of states.