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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicants:

Thien D. Nguyen, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

George W. Conner, Camarillo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thien D. Nguyen, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

George W. Conner, Camarillo, CA (US);

Assignee:

Teradyne, Inc., North Reading, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 37/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/319 (2006.01); G01R 31/3193 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/31907 (2013.01); G01R 31/31935 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to some aspects, a system and method for processing messages in a plurality of successive cycles is provided. One such system may include a plurality of first circuits, each first circuit configured to output a message, the plurality of first circuits configured to operate synchronously, a first plurality of buffers, each buffer associated with a respective first circuit and configured to store a message output by the respective first circuit, a communication path configured to receive the plurality of messages from the buffers and to perform aggregation of the messages, thereby generating an aggregated indication, and one or more second circuits. The one or more second circuits are configured to operate synchronously and to receive the aggregated indication, wherein buffers of the first plurality of buffers are configured to store messages from respective first circuits for different times.


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