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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. 29, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395500 ; 395307 ; 364240 ; 3642402 ; 36493547 ; 364D / ; 364D / ;
Abstract
In a computer system, a mother-board is used to physically connect processor, memory, and input/output modules. The mother-board includes an adaptable processor bus for connecting the processor and memory modules, and an input/output bus for connecting the input/output modules, the processor and input/output bus are decoupled for communicating. A processor module including a bridge is used to coupled the processor and input/output buses, and to adapt the processor bus to a particular processor architectures.