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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007

Filed:

Dec. 26, 2001
Applicants:

Mark a Schmisseur, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Timothy J Jehl, Higley, AZ (US);

Richard P Mackey, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Delf Atallah, Chandler, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Mark A Schmisseur, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Timothy J Jehl, Higley, AZ (US);

Richard P Mackey, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Delf Atallah, Chandler, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method of initializing a core processing circuit are disclosed. The core processing circuit is held in a reset state while a reset vector is loaded to one or more registers at a boot address associated with the core processing circuit. The reset vector is loaded from a system memory through a host bridge. The reset vector comprises one or more instructions to initialize the core processing system upon release from a reset state.


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