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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:
Nov. 11, 2008

Filed:

May. 31, 2002
Applicants:

Rodney W. Schmidt, Dripping Springs, TX (US);

Brian C. Barnes, Round Rock, TX (US);

Geoffrey S. Strongin, Austin, TX (US);

David S. Christie, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Rodney W. Schmidt, Dripping Springs, TX (US);

Brian C. Barnes, Round Rock, TX (US);

Geoffrey S. Strongin, Austin, TX (US);

David S. Christie, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for handling a security exception. The method includes creating a security exception stack frame in secure memory at a base address. The method also includes writing a faulting code sequence address and one or more register values into the security exception stack frame, and executing a plurality of security exception instructions.


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