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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1997
Paulus M Gorissen, Eindhoven, NL;
Alexander Augusteijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Eelco J Dijkstra, Winsum, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Multiple format addressing is implemented in a microcontroller that has both ROM and RAM memory facility, processing facility, and bus facility for interconnecting the memory and processing facilities, through using a low address field for local addressing, and at least one facultative high address field for extended addressing. In particular, the high address field is provided in a first addressing format as a segment address, and in a second addressing format as containing a RAM/ROM selection bit. More in particular, the high address field can be provided in a third addressing format as containing a RAM/ROM selection bit and a segment address in respective mutually exclusive fields.