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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2006
Paul Jerome Short, Albuquerque, NM (US);
William Broome, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Taylor Wray, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Andrew David Alsup, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Paul Jerome Short, Albuquerque, NM (US);
William Broome, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Taylor Wray, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Andrew David Alsup, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Innovasic, Inc, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
A deterministic microcontroller includes a plurality of blocks of cache memories formed on the same integrated circuit as the microprocessor unit. A corresponding plurality of hardware contexts for the microcontroller is provided by the plurality of sets of hardware registers. A context manager controls the selection of the hardware registers such that contexts are changed within one bus cycle and a plurality of hardware contexts are provided. The deterministic microcontroller includes a configurable input/output interface that is programmable to handle any one of a plurality of interfaces that embedded applications might have, including communication protocols and bus interfaces, data acquisition from multiple sensors and actuators, and controls of various motors.