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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Miroslav Dokic, Austin, TX (US);
Raghunath Rao, Austin, TX (US);
Terry Ritchie, Austin, TX (US);
James Divine, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey Niehaus, Austin, TX (US);
Zheng Luo, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cirrus Logic, Inc., , US;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713-2 ; 714 36 ;
Abstract
A message is transferred from external device through a first processor and from the first processor to a second processor. A check is made that the message passed to the second processor without error. The message is interpreted by a selected one of the first and second processors. Boot operations are performed by the selected processor in response to the interpretation of the message.