ATI patent specs flip flop - Is it for Xbox 2?

If you want to see some of the worst reading of the year, go check out the ATI patent for "Method and apparatus for determining a processing speed of an integrated circuit ". The patent is confusing the best of us; and me too. It may be nothing, but it is the best possibly-Xbox 2 factoid we can find on the eve of the Sony/IBM PS 3 hype-machine. Stay tuned for that. It should be fun.

Here's an excerpt from the patent:

"An apparatus for determining a processing speed of an integrated circuit, the apparatus comprising: a first flip flop having an input port capable of receiving an input signal, an output port capable of providing a flip flop output signal and a timing port capable of receiving an incoming clock signal; a first delay module coupled to the first flip flop such that the first delay module receives the flip flop output signal, the first delay module operably coupled to receive the incoming clock signal and operably coupled to receive a select delay signal, wherein the first delay module includes: a first delay circuit operably coupled to the output port of the first flip flop such that the first delay circuit is capable of receiving the flip flop output signal and generating a first delay timing signal..."

It goes on and on like this.

[via CVG]