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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 1995

Filed:

Feb. 06, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Amar Ghori, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Herve R Lambert, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Steven M McIntyre, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395425 ; 395400 ; 364D / ;
Abstract

Methods and circuitry for sharing a memory space of a microcontroller with a processor. The memory space corresponds to a random access memory accessible by the microcontroller. The memory space includes random access memory on a same substrate as the microcontroller. The processor is located on a different substrate from the microcontroller. The circuitry includes a slave port for communicating data between the processor and the microcontroller. The slave port receives a logical address and a control signal from the processor. The slave port generates an interrupt signal in response to the control signal. An interrupt server generates memory control signals in response to the interrupt signal. A memory controller reads data from and writes data to the slave port and a memory location associated with the logical address in response to the memory control signals.


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