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7631229 Selective bit error detection at a bus device  
In one aspect, a data transmission rate of a message signal representing a bus message at a bus and a propagation delay between an occurrence of the message signal at a transmission output to the...
7631228 Using bit errors from memory to alter memory command stream  
A system, method, and memory controller are provided that alters a memory command stream to a hardware memory. Data is written to the hardware memory and, after the data is stored in the memory,...
7624332 Method for processing noise interference in data accessing device with serial advanced technology attachment interface  
A method for processing noise interference in a serial AT Attachment (SATA) interface. In the method, when a receiver does not receive a SOF primitive (start of frame primitive) but does receive an...
7620860 System and method of dynamically mapping out faulty memory areas  
An information handling system is disclosed and can include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. Further, the system can include a system reserved area that is accessible to the...
7617424 Error monitoring for serial links  
Methods, apparatuses and systems for physical link error data capture and analysis.
7613978 Method and an apparatus for a quick retransmission of signals in a communication system  
A method and an apparatus for quick retransmission of signals in a communication system are disclosed. A transmitting terminal, e.g., a base station, transmits signals in a form of packets to a...
7613974 Fault detection method and apparatus  
This invention relates to fault detection in electrical circuits. The invention provides a method and apparatus for testing an input circuit by generating a periodic test signal having a...
7613959 Data receiving apparatus of a PCI express device  
A data receiving apparatus of a PCI Express system includes a receiving device, an 8B10B decoder, a forged packet removing device, and a descrambling circuit. The forged packet removing device...
7610520 Digital data signal testing using arbitrary test signal  
For testing a digital data signal, a value derived from the digital data signal at a sampling point is compared against a corresponding value of an arbitrary test signal. The comparison is...
7607053 Method and device for calculating bit error rate of received signal  
System and method of estimating radio channel bit error rate (BER) in a digital radio telecommunications system wherein the soft output of the turbo decoder is used as pointer or index to...
7606487 Distortion measurement in optical communication systems  
The distortion component of an optical signal received from an optical transmission system, such as an all-optical system, subject to noise and amplitude distortion components, can be evaluated by...
7603591 Apparatus selectively adopting different determining criteria in erasure marking procedure when performing decoding process, and method thereof  
A method and a related apparatus that decode an input signal to generate an output signal. The method includes determining burst noise locations corresponding to the input signal and generating a...
7587662 Detection of noise within an operating frequency on a network  
Noise is detected within an operating frequency of a communication medium. Messages are monitored on the communication medium for corrupted messages. A noise detected signal is generated when a...
7584410 Frequency error detector and combiner in receiving end of mobile communication system  
Disclosed is a frequency error detector and combiner at a receiving end of a mobile communication system. The frequency error detector and combiner using a diversity operation at a reception end of...
7584389 Turbo decoding apparatus and method  
This invention relates to a turbo decoding apparatus and method for a communication system. A high-rate memory buffer operating at the same frequency as a turbo decoder is arranged between a memory...
7571407 Semiconductor integrated circuit and method of testing delay thereof  
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises: a first area, formed on a semiconductor chip, which operates at a first predetermined voltage and a first predetermined frequency; a second area,...
7571360 System and method for providing a clock and data recovery circuit with a fast bit error rate self test capability  
A system and method is disclosed for providing a clock and data recovery circuit with a fast bit error rate self test capability. A bit error rate test control unit is provided that causes the...
7564380 Systems and methods for storing test data and accessing test data  
A system and a method for storing test data are provided. The system includes a memory device and a computer operably communicating with the memory device. The computer is configured to receive...
7555685 Method and apparatus for monitoring bit-error rate  
A test set for evaluating network performance is described, and which may include an output device, a processor, a power supply, a memory unit, and a control terminal. The test set may be...
7552366 Jitter tolerance testing apparatus, systems, and methods  
Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles may operate to move an output phase of a clock phase adjustment device associated with a master clock through a plurality of phase shifts relative to a...
7549108 Methods and systems for secure control of system modes and sub-modes  
Systems, methods and data structures are provided for representing robust data transmitted within a control system. The data structure includes at least two data fields identifying sub-modules and...
7549094 Method for receiving data by a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter  
The present invention discloses a method for receiving data by a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter, which includes a receive shift register (RSR), a receiver FIFO, a receiver buffer...
7539928 Method and apparatus for decoding inner and outer codes in a mobile communication system  
A method and apparatus for decoding inner and/or outer codes in a mobile communication system. The inner and/or outer codes are decoded at low power and high speed. An inner decoder performs...
7519882 Intelligent binning for electrically repairable semiconductor chips  
The present invention relates to a system and method for testing one or more semiconductor devices (e.g., packaged chips). Test equipment performs at least tests of a first type on the...
7519874 Method and apparatus for bit error rate analysis  
A method and apparatus for determining a bit error rate. The method comprises the steps of acquiring a data signal by an acquisition unit of a test instrument for a predetermined period of time,...
7516374 Testing circuit and related method of injecting a time jitter  
A testing method includes selecting a low-pass filter by simulation, generating testing signals with the low-pass filter receiving output signals of an under-test circuit, and outputting the...
7516373 Method for testing the error ratio of a device using a preliminary probability  
A method for testing the (Bit) Error Ratio BER of a device against a maximal allowable (Bit) Error Ratio BER limit with an early pass and/or early fail criterion, whereby the early pass and/or...
7509542 System and method for testing the upstream channel of a cable network  
A system and method for testing a portion of a cable network provides a pattern generator, addresser, forward error corrector, and comparator. The system and method is particularly adapted to...
7509541 Detection mechanism  
A computer apparatus includes a first integrated circuit (IC) and a second IC. The second IC includes a soft error rate (SER) immune component and a SER component to detect radiation that could...
7506223 Method and system for sensing a shock in optical disk device  
Disclosed is a method and system enabling to remove a noise effectively by establishing types of shocks that may occur possibly and by sensing a shock using the error corresponding to the shock....
7500167 BER calculation device for calculating the BER during the decoding of an input signal  
In a decoder, the BER is calculated during a decode operation of the decoder. Access to decoder components for obtaining signal data for use in calculating the BER is provided during the decode...
7498961 Context identification using a denoised signal  
Denoising such as discrete universal denoising (DUDE) that scans a noisy signal in an attempt to characterize probabilities of finding symbol values in a particular context in a clean signal can...
7496804 Communications system, receiver, and method of estimating received signal quality by using bit error rate  
There is provided a receiver comprising a processing unit, a communications unit for receiving frames including training sequence symbols or pilot symbols, the processing unit being configured to...
7493530 Method and apparatus for detecting an error in a bit sequence  
An error detector for a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS). A plurality of bits of a PRBS are received in a predictor circuit. A comparator compares two of the bits to predict a next bit in the...
7493234 Monitoring and reporting normalized device system performance  
Methods are provided to monitor and report performance data of a device such as a data storage drive. A plurality of quantitative values are obtained from feedback and measurement mechanisms in a...
7490278 PCI express physical layer built-in self test architecture  
A built-in self test circuit includes a first pattern generator, an elastic buffer receiver, a command symbol detector, a second pattern generator, and a logic unit. The architecture is capable of...
7484160 Systems and methods for delineating a cell in a communications network  
A method of performing cell delineation in a communications network is described. The method includes providing a data cell defined based on a communications protocol. The data cell forms at least...
7484137 RAID system using regional error statistics for redundancy grouping  
Geometrically-dependent error rates are used to identify sectors for XORing data in a RAID system for parity purposes in such a way that the probability of failure of any particular group is...
7484136 Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) determination in the time domain  
A technique for modifying communication operational parameters using fast, low complexity, accurately calculated SNR values. Techniques may improve upon prior art by calculating SNR values in a...
7475299 Method and system for real-time bit error ratio determination  
A method and system for real-time bit error ratio determination is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided in which an operational link error rate of a link is determined and...
7472320 Autonomous self-monitoring and corrective operation of an integrated circuit  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for autonomously self-monitoring and self-adjusting the operation of an integrated circuit device throughout the integrated circuit device's useful life. The...
7472318 System and method for determining on-chip bit error rate (BER) in a communication system  
A method and system for evaluating performance of a device by on-chip determination of BER may include establishing and generating PRBS test packets in a closed communication path internally within...
7469366 Measurement of health statistics for a high-speed interface  
Health of a high-speed interface link, such as a PCI Express link, is measured. In one embodiment, counter data representing data sent and errors occurring in a high-speed interface link is read....
7467337 Semiconductor memory device  
Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device capable of arbitrarily setting an upper limit of the number of error corrections during a test operation. The semiconductor memory device has a counter, a...
7467336 Method and apparatus to measure and display data dependent eye diagrams  
A method and apparatus to draw eye diagrams of multi-valued signals that remove non-data dependent effects is disclosed. An exemplary method includes collecting event counts at variable bit...
7461317 System and method for aligning a quadrature encoder and establishing a decoder processing speed  
A system and method are disclosed for determining the minimum required processing speed for a quadrature decoder using measurements of encoder performance, and to assess the safety factor of a...
7454562 Performance information in digital storage memory module apparatus and method  
A digital storage memory module ( 200 ) comprises a housing ( 201 ) having a first memory ( 202 ) and a second memory ( 205 ) disposed therein. In one embodiment the first memory comprises, for...
7454514 Processing data with uncertain arrival time  
A data communications architecture employing serializers and deserializers that reduces data communications latency. In an illustrative implementation, the data communications architecture...
7451362 Method and system for onboard bit error rate (BER) estimation in a port bypass controller  
Certain aspects of the method may comprise receiving via a first port of the port bypass controller, a data stream comprising at least one known bit pattern. Upon locking onto at least a portion of...
7444490 Apparatus, system, and method for modifying memory voltage and performance based on a measure of memory device stress  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for modifying memory device timing and voltage. A detection module detects a change of memory device stress. A timing modification module modifies the...