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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. 28, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
James O Bondi, Plano, TX (US);
Jonathan H Shiell, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
712230 ; 712245 ; 712234 ;
Abstract
A circuit (10) for producing a microprogram memory address (16). This circuit includes circuitry (18I, 18J) for selecting a plurality of condition codes. Additionally, the circuit includes logic circuitry (20) for producing a result by performing logic operations using as operands the selected plurality of condition codes. The result of the logic operations forms a first portion (LSB', or LSB' and NLSB') of the microprogram memory address.