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Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2002
Applicants:

Ravi P. Singh, Austin, TX (US);

Thomas Tomazin, Austin, TX (US);

Charles P. Roth, Austin, TX (US);

Jose Fridman, Swampscott, MA (US);

Michael Allen, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Ravi P. Singh, Austin, TX (US);

Thomas Tomazin, Austin, TX (US);

Charles P. Roth, Austin, TX (US);

Jose Fridman, Swampscott, MA (US);

Michael Allen, Austin, TX (US);

Assignees:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A processor may support a self-nesting mode in which an interrupt may preempt another interrupt of the same priority level. The execution of an interrupt service routine (ISR) for an interrupt may be deferred until the ISR for a subsequently received interrupt of the same priority level is completed.


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