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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:
May. 27, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
James F Hollander, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 395478 ; 395381 ; 364D / ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A processor architecture comprises a priority processing unit (20), a priority memory (30), an instruction set memory (40), and an instruction execution unit (50). The priority processing unit (20) generates priority values and stores them in priority memory (30). Each priority value is associated with an instruction stored in instruction memory (40). Priority processing unit (20) causes the instruction associated with a particular priority value to be outputted to instruction execution unit (50).