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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brian Arsenault, Leicester, MA (US);
Victor W. Tung, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ;
Abstract
A method and a control device is provided for upgrading computer system hardware, for example, on a printed circuit board, with system revision information. The method includes receiving, a serial data stream having data bits associated with the system revision information through a serial input of the control device, determining the start of the data bits, and storing at least a portion of the data bits associated with the system revision information within a read-only register of the control device.