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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2006
Applicant:
Paul Wielage, Waalre, NL;
Inventor:
Paul Wielage, Waalre, NL;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An asynchronous ripple pipeline has a plurality of stages, each with a controller () and a register (). The controller has a register control output (), and a combined acknowledgement and request output (), together with a request input () and an acknowledgement input (). The protocol used has a single signal, output on the combined acknowledgement and request output () of a stage (), that functions both as a request to the next stage () and an acknowledgement to the previous stage ().