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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:
Dec. 31, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ori K Mizrahi-Shalom, San Jose, CA (US);
Kung-Ling Ko, Union City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Philips Electronics North America Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 395380 ; 395500 ;
Abstract
A microcontroller or processor architecture that performs word aligned multi-byte fetches but allows byte aligned instructions. Jump target addresses are word aligned, resulting in a word aligned fetch of the jump-to instruction. An assembler or compiler loads code into an instruction memory with branch instruction target addresses aligned on word boundaries. Returns from interrupts load the program counter with a complete return address which is byte aligned.