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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:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Williams, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay Li, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
OPTi Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710-8 ; 710 11 ; 710 12 ; 710 62 ; 326 37 ;
Abstract
A system in accordance with the invention provides a chipset for use generally in a PC-type system and that includes a plurality of programmable I/O (PIO) pins. Each of the PIO pins can be programmed to carry signals in accordance with any function in a function pool. In one embodiment, the number of PIO pins total 32 and the number of functions total 70. Such programmability allows a single-chip chipset to be vendor platform-generic while simultaneously minimizing pin count.