Method and system for low cost line buffer system design
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsGenkun Jason Yang, Jean-Huang Chen, Richard H. Wyman
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Abstract
Various aspects of the low cost line buffer system allow a reduction in circuitry versus conventional approaches to line buffer design. A plurality of line buffers such that the output of one line buffer in the plurality of line buffers may be coupled to an input of a succeeding line buffer in the plurality of line buffers. A first line buffer in the plurality of line buffers may be coupled to an input write data signal, while the width of a subsequent plurality of line buffers may be less than or equal to the width of the previous line buffers in the plurality of line buffers.
Claims18
A method for low cost line buffer design, the method comprising:
- concurrently transferring data from each of at least a portion of a plurality of line buffers to at least a subsequent one of said plurality of line buffers based on a single write address and a single write enable signal;
- wherein said at least a subsequent one of said plurality of line buffers receives said concurrently transferred data comprising at least a portion of read data output from a corresponding one of said each of at least a portion of said plurality of line buffers;
- wherein a width of at least one subsequent one of said plurality of line buffers is less than a width of any preceding one of said plurality of line buffers.
A system for a low cost line buffer, the system comprising:
- one or more circuits that enable concurrent transfer of data from of a plurality of line buffers to at least a subsequent one of said plurality of line buffers based on a single write address and a single write enable signal;
- wherein said at least a subsequent one of said plurality of line buffers receives said concurrently transferred data comprising at least a portion of read data output from a corresponding one of said each of at least a portion of said plurality of line buffers;
- wherein a width of at least one subsequent one of said plurality of line buffers is less than a width of any preceding one of said plurality of line buffers.
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