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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2012
Santosh Narayanan, Bangalore, IN;
Benzeer Bava Arackal Pazhayakath, Bangalore, IN;
Vishal Deep Ajmera, Bangalore, IN;
Sandesh Kadirudyavara Ven Gowda, Bangalore, IN;
Santosh Narayanan, Bangalore, IN;
Benzeer Bava Arackal Pazhayakath, Bangalore, IN;
Vishal Deep Ajmera, Bangalore, IN;
Sandesh Kadirudyavara Ven Gowda, Bangalore, IN;
LSI Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a scheme for reliably reading data values, such as rapidly-changing counter values, from a memory location. Instead of performing a single read operation, a set of N consecutive read operations is performed to obtain a set of N samples. Since, for counter values and the like, the frequency of occurrence of out-of-sequence values is relatively low, it is expected that a majority of the N samples will be in sequence. Of these N samples, the largest subset of monotonically-increasing values is selected. The median value of this subset of monotonically non-decreasing values is returned as a reliable result of the read operation.