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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2007
Applicant:
Jiefan Zhang, High Wycombe, GB;
Inventor:
Jiefan Zhang, High Wycombe, GB;
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A scheduler includes a sorting unit that has n comparators to identify a smallest virtual finish time (VFT) value from 2VFT entries. Each of the VFT entries may include a valid bit to indicate its validity.