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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:
Jun. 20, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ajay J Padgaonkar, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395425 ; 364243 ; 364246 ; 36424611 ;
Abstract
A processor fabricated in a semiconductor chip has on-chip program memory and access to off-chip program memory. Switching between the on-chip memory and the off-chip memory is effected in the course of program execution, without using a pin-out of the device package in which the processor is housed or encapsulated, by writing a system configuration bit stored in a memory location shared by the on-chip and off-chip memories to a '1' or a '0' according to whether the program instruction is to be executed from the on-chip memory or the off-chip memory.