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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001

Filed:

Jan. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:

Tony S. El-Kik, Allentown, PA (US);

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 ;
Abstract

An apparatus for developing internal ROM code is disclosed for use in applications where software code is being developed for a ROM device inside a device and there is a need for the application to cause code from an external memory to be executed at the same time as internal ROM code. Accessing code from an external memory requires the use of the external bus interface. In order to free the external memory for use and the external bus interface for accessing code from external memory yet still allow testing of ROM code from an external memory before it is implemented on a ROM chip inside the device, an additional memory is used outside the device, and internal control logic is added.


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