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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tosaku Nakanishi, Saratoga, CA (US);
Siripong Sritanyaratana, Union City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for serial communication with a co-processor. In one embodiment, a microprocessor is provided with a CPU core, set of serial interface registers, a serial interface unit, to provide serial communication between a co-processor and the microprocessor. The set of serial interface registers is part of a register file of the CPU core and interrupts are exchanged between the CPU core and the co-processor to allow for reading and writing of data placed in the serial registers of the register file.