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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:
Apr. 23, 1996
Filed:
May. 01, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 3642316 ; 36423442 ; 3642476 ; 3642551 ; 3642547 ; 3642568 ; 3642624 ; 3642629 ; 364D / ; 395375 ;
Abstract
A program control circuit which comprises a register for holding the repetition number of a program operation to be repeated. The control circuit further comprises a counter for receiving the content of the register and adapted to be decremented in response to each execution of the program operation to be repeated. A memory stores a sequence of instructions. A controller transfers an instruction read from the memory without modification in a normal condition and modifies the instruction read from the memory into a no-operation instruction when the contents of the counter reaches a predetermined contents.