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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:
Nov. 11, 1997
Filed:
May. 24, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard L Hull, Chandler, AZ (US);
Ryan Scott Ellison, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
326 38 ; 326 46 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a configurable IC device pin. The IC device pin may be a device clock input pin or a digital I/O pin in one embodiment of the present invention, or a reset pin or a digital I/O pin in another embodiment of the present invention. Both embodiments of the present invention use a memory device to store information to configure the IC device pin. Input/Output logic is also used in both embodiments in order to transfer data to and from the IC device pin when the IC device pin is configured as a digital I/O pin.