PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934804
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["714", "700000"]

Abstract:
A byte lane of an integrated circuit including two data strobe loopback paths that allow external test signals to flow in and out of the integrated circuit through data strobe pins in two opposite directions. The integrated circuit includes a Feed Forward Equalization (FFE) path configured to send FFE signals output from the FFE logic via a transmitter set to a first data strobe interface during a normal operation. In a loopback test mode operation, a test signal can be supplied from a second data strobe interface and output to the first data strobe interface by reusing the FFE path. The second loopback path conversely allows a test signal to be routed from the first data strobe interface to the second.

Claim (Index 10):
A memory controller comprising:\n interface circuitry; and memory control logic configured to manage data flow with a memory storage device via said interface circuitry, wherein said interface circuitry comprises:\n data interfaces configured to be coupled to an external bus and receive and transmit data signals; \n a first data strobe interface and a second data strobe interface configured to be coupled to said external bus and receive and transmit data strobe signals; \n feed forward equalization (FFE) logic configured to generate FFE signals based on data signals; \n a first data path coupled between said FFE logic and said second data strobe interface; \n a first external loopback path comprising said first data path and configured to transporting loopback test signals from said first data strobe interface to said second data strobe interface; and \n a second external loopback path comprising and configured to transporting loopback test signals from said second data strobe interface to said first data strobe interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96923
- Patent Class: 714.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13559741', '12972977', '11802846', '14036709', '13079391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3049717528059175
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.498980191721842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3243725966975099
- Mean Citation Score: 231.00518
- Max Citation Score: 260.0033
- Similarity Product: 179.53631343021394

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test