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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:
Dec. 02, 1980
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gregory B Wiedenman, Sandy, UT (US);
Assignee:
Sperry Rand Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ;
Abstract
Peripheral devices of a microprocessor controlled system initiate service request signals which are sent to a system controller over a single dedicated request line. Such request signals are accepted by the system controller on a priority basis, with only one service request signal being honored at any given time. Once honored, the system controller addresses the peripheral device and accepts a vector request word therefrom. The vector request word is then used by the system controller to generate an index signal to select a microaddress of the microroutine to be used to service a peripheral device's request.