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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:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Raghu Murthi, Portland, OR (US);
Scott Tetrick, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39518318 ; 39518401 ;
Abstract
Testing of shared memory (RAM) in a multiple processor computer system is achieved by partitioning the memory and allocating the memory portions to respective processors in the system. Each processor performs testing of its allocated memory portion simultaneously with the other processors in order to reduce the time required to complete the memory test.