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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2004
Applicant:
Jason Baumbach, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jason Baumbach, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and an apparatus are described for sensing of a multi-state signal. An embodiment of a method includes driving a digital input line with a signal, the signal alternating between a first state and a second state. The method further includes sensing one or more values of the digital input line, and determining a state of the digital input line based on the sensed values.