Status bit controlled HDLC accelerator
US5638370A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 28, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 28, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/324
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A status bit controlled HDLC accelerator comprises a fully programmable CRC generation circuit, a partial data packet formatting/unformatting capability and a dual-mode register set. The HDLC accelerator includes a set of registers that can be written to and read from directly via a bus interface circuit. Moreover, these registers may be written to and read from at any time so that the state of the HDLC accelerator during a formatting or unformatting operation may be stored in mid-operation. The HDLC accelerator further includes a CRC generation circuit that can perform various checkword generation functions in response to a programmable CRC generator polynomial. In addition, programmable counters within the HDLC accelerator allow partial data packets to be processed which thereby enables formatting and unformatting data packets of all valid bit enumerations.
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