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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1998
Method and apparatus for developing and debugging portable computers via a peripheral interface slot
Applicant:
Inventor:
Rick Hennessy, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/125 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/125 ;
Abstract
A portable computer includes a housing having an outside surface. A processor is contained within the housing and has a bus port and a debug port. A debug connector is mounted at the outside surface of the computer housing and is operatively connected to the debug port. The computer housing can include at least one peripheral interface slot defined by a portion of the outside surface of the computer, and the debug connector can be located in the peripheral interface slot.