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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Muthurajan Jayakumar, Folsom, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395739 ; 395742 ;
Abstract
An improved APIC controller which utilizes an improved addressing mechanism for interrupts which provides an additional bit position for priority values so that thirty-two levels of priority may be furnished at sequential addresses within an interrupt vector table in memory. In one embodiment, circuitry is furnished which allows the alternative implementation of either a prior art addressing mechanism or the improved addressing mechanism.