Registers – Platform operated – Platform actuated traffic counters
Patent
1976-12-27
1978-04-25
Thesz, Joseph M.
Registers
Platform operated
Platform actuated traffic counters
235 92EA, 235 92EV, 235 92R, 364900, G06M 314, H03K 2110
Patent
active
040864707
ABSTRACT:
A hardware counter counts high rate, lower significant bits. A carry-borrow circuit responsive to the higher order bit position of the hardware counter includes cancel means responsive to successively received carry and borrow signals to cancel previously generated carries or borrows. Memory means in the carry-borrow circuit memorize the generation of the carry or borrow by the hardware counter. A programmed microprocessor, or the like, periodically senses the status of the carry-borrow circuit for transferring signal contents thereof to a software controlled count field. The arrangement permits high speed counting without interrupting the microprocessor and not imposing rate constraints on program execution of the microprocessor.
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patent: 3297859 (1967-01-01), Reiser
patent: 3391342 (1968-07-01), Gordon et al.
patent: 3500022 (1970-03-01), Toscano
patent: 3513468 (1970-05-01), Fluegel
patent: 3967095 (1976-06-01), Herring et al.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Somermeyer Herbert F.
Thesz Joseph M.
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