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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:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ravi P. Singh, Austin, TX (US);
Charles P. Roth, Austin, TX (US);
Ravi Kolagotla, Austin, TX (US);
Juan G. Revilla, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ; G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ; G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for holding instruction fetch requests of a processor in an extended reset. Fetch requests are disabled when the processor undergoes a reset. When the reset is completed, fetch requests remain disabled when the instruction memory is being loaded. When loading of the instruction memory is completed, fetch requests are enabled.