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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1983
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1981
Virendra S Negi, Pepperell, MA (US);
Steven A Tague, Billerica, MA (US);
Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A microprogrammed controlled commercial instruction processor coupled to a common bus executes a diagnostic microprogram to check the data path of the common bus interface registers and their associated internal registers. Decoded bits of a predetermined microword of the diagnostic microprogram generate a signal which transfers a predetermined data word containing a plurality of bytes stored in a first of the internal registers sequentially through the interface registers to a second of the internal registers during one microword cycle. Apparatus generates bad parity for selected bytes. Subsequent microwords compare the contents of the first and second internal registers and verify the detection of the 'bad' parity.