Patent 7752506 was granted and assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corporation on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A FIFO memory error circuit has a read pointer coupled to a FIFO memory. The read pointer has a logic high output once every FIFO memory cycle. A write pointer is coupled to the FIFO memory and has a logic high output once every FIFO memory cycle. An error detector has a first input coupled to the read pointer and a second input coupled to the write pointer.