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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 1979
Filed:
Oct. 27, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Larry L Miles, Garland, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364712 ; 364900 ;
Abstract
An electronic calculator or microprocessor system is provided with a semiconductor chip having a prechargeable and conditionally dischargeable instruction word memory, a program counter for addressing the instruction word memory, and a power up clear circuit. The power up clear circuit includes a latch circuit having two states, the first state being preferentially entered on when electrical power is first provided to the latch circuit and a second state which is entered at some time thereafter, and a gating circuit for interrupting the addressing of the instruction word memory by the program counter when said latch circuit is in the first state.