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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
Mikael Nilsson, Lund, SE;
Jonas Oxenholt, Äkarp, SE;
Kenny Ranerup, Lund, SE;
Stefan Sandström, Eslöv, SE;
Axis AB, Lund, SE;
Abstract
An on-chip i/o-processor for controlling and communication with peripheral devices, wherein an i/o processor core (,), comprising at least one pin controller (,) for reading and setting physical i/o-pins (,), starting timers and generating interrupts for the i/o processor core (,), at least one timer (,) for sampling i/o-pins (,), setting i/o-pins (,) and generating interrupts for the i/o-processor core (,) at well defined points of time, said i/o-processor core (,) providing instructions for controlling said at least one pin controller (,), said at least one timer (,) and i/o-pins (,), an on chip RAM (,) holding instructions for the i/o processor core (,), at least one register (,) for exchanging information between the i/o-processor (,) and a connected CPU (,) on the same chip and inversely, configurable logic (,), connected between said core (,) and said i/o-pins (,), for synchronization of incoming and/or outgoing signals.