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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2004
Applicants:
Paul Kimelman, Alamo, CA (US);
Ian Field, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Kimelman, Alamo, CA (US);
Ian Field, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Assignee:
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 13/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A data processing system nested interrupt controllerresponsive to priority level valuesassociated with respective interrupt handling programs to control the execution of those interrupt handling programs. The priority level values have a first portionwhich controls whether or not a pending interrupt handling program will pre-empt an already active interrupt handling program and a second portionwhich controls which of a plurality of pending interrupt handling programs will be executed next when they share the same value for the first portion of their priority level value.