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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 1984
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1980
Karl M Guttag, Houston, TX (US);
Jerry R Vanaken, Houston, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A single-chip microprocessor device of the MOS/LSI type contains an ALU, internal busses, address/data registers, an instruction register, and control decode or microcontrol generator circuitry. The device communicates with external memory and peripherals by control lines and a bidirectional multiplexed address/data bus. In addition to the main off-chip memory, a smaller on-chip memory (including both ROM and RAM not in the main off-chip memory map) is provided which allows execution of instruction sequences to emulate complex instructions or interpretors (macro-instructions). The macro-instructions are indistinguishable from 'native' instructions since all memory fetches and the like are generated exactly the same way, and long instruction sequences are interruptable. Also, off-chip access of another memory separate from the main memory allows emulator functions or special instructions.