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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:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2010
Applicant:
Michael E. Peattie, Campbell, CA (US);
Inventor:
Michael E. Peattie, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for triggering and capturing digital circuit signals are disclosed. For example, a logic analyzer according to one embodiment includes at least one trigger combination block and a state machine deploy in a memory coupled to the trigger combination block, where the state machine includes an input coupled to an output of the trigger combination block and an output coupled to a capture memory in which one or more digital circuit signals are stored.