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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:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Robert Baldwin, Weybridge, GB;
Nicholas J. N. Murphy, The Sands, GB;
Andrew Peter Maund, Shepperton, GB;
Paul Pontin, Claygate, GB;
Steve Cooper, Hayes, GB;
Assignee:
3D Labs Inc., Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/576 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/576 ;
Abstract
A specialized processing chip (e.g. a graphics accelerator) in which the host interface provides access to the diagnostic registers in most of the complex logic on the chip, except for the host interface itself. This advantageously permits the host CPU to obtain direct access to register contents in the specialized chip.