FIFO memory arrangement including a memory location fill indication
US5027330A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 30, 1988 |
| Grant date | Jun 25, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 30, 2008 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F5/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A first-in, first-out, memory has a random access memory (RAM) for storing a plurality of information words seriatim. The use of such memory is significantly enhanced by arranging the memory so that it calculates and outputs to respective terminals the number of RAM locations which contain information words and the number of RAM locations which are empty. Each number is outputted responsive to receipt of a respective request to do so.
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