Patent ID: 9672185
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,G11C

Claim:
1. A method comprising incrementing an enumeration value received from a previous enumerable instance to uniquely identify an immediately adjacent enumerable instance of a plurality of enumerable instances in a daisy chain configuration, wherein: an enumeration register, start/stop register, and carry register of the previous enumerable instance are initialized to a value of 0; an input port of the previous enumerable instance is set to be quiescently 0; at a beginning of a cycle, a sum value in a sum register is quiescently 0; when a value of 1 is first received at an input port port of the previous enumerable instance, it is interpreted as a start bit; control logic loads the carry register with a value of 1 and the enumeration register will hold this value; the start bit is transferred to a most-significant bit (MSB) register comprising the enumeration register; in a next cycle, a least significant bit (LSB) of an incoming value is received and new carry and sum values are computed and stored in the carry register and enumeration register, as well as transmitted to an output port; and an increment function on an LSB-first enumeration value arriving at the input port of is initiated.