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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brentt Curtus Duff, Carmel, IN (US);
Assignee:
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 ; G06F 9/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 ; G06F 9/24 ;
Abstract
A method for incorporating a conditional reset vector into a microprocessor's boot system to scan memory for a reset vector locator for finding valid boot software throughout the microprocessor's memory space. The conditional reset vector method of the present invention contains conditional logic that determines where in memory the reset vector locator can be found.