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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. 16, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jonathan H Shiell, Plano, TX (US);
Joel J Graber, Richardson, TX (US);
Donald E Steiss, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
712227 ;
Abstract
In a method embodiment (10), the method operates a microprocessor (110), and the microprocessor has an instruction set. The method first (11) stores an identifier code uniquely identifying the particular microprocessor in a one-time programmable register. The method second (12) issues to the microprocessor an identifier request instruction from the instruction set. The method then, and in response to the identifier request instruction, provides (18) from the microprocessor an identifier code. Other circuits, systems, and methods are also disclosed and claimed.