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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2012
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Paulette Thurston, North Plains, OR (US);
Bruce A. Tennant, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5054 (2013.01);
Abstract
A programmable link training and status state machine is disclosed. The programmable finite state machine includes extra states, or shadow states, which are strategically used to debug a system design or to accommodate unexpected behavior, such as when the specifications of the design change. The programmable finite state machine is thus a mechanism to design in correctable logic, enabling the logic to be corrected in silicon and used in succeeding iterations of a product line.