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Context-sensitive overhead processor

US7924938B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Inventor

Wally Haas · St. John's, CA

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 24, 2007
Grant date	Apr 12, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 28, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04J3/1611
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An overhead processor for data transmission in digital communications, where a state machine, including a logic element and a flip-flop, is able to process a “previous” data state and a “next” data state simultaneously by storing the previous state in an external elastic storage element until the next state arrives along the datapath. By employing flip-flops on the path from the logic element to the elastic store and on the path from the elastic store to the logic element, data is transmitted faster, resulting in the ability for both the previous data state and the next data state to be transmitted simultaneously, in one clock cycle, requiring half of the transmission time required by prior art.

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