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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:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edwin J. Pole, II, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 ; G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 ; G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A method for incorporating bus ratio strap options in chipset logic. The method of one embodiment first fabricates a register and multiplexer in chipset logic. The register is programmed with a bus ratio setting. A bus ratio setting is selected to be the output from the multiplexer. The selected bus ratio setting is driven out from the multiplexer to output pins.