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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
May. 24, 2004
Applicant:
Fu-chiung Cheng, Taipei, TW;
Inventor:
Fu-Chiung Cheng, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Tatung Co., Ltd., Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A reusable hardware intellectual property (IP) component protocol method for a system-on-chip is disclosed, which uses a software function to describe hardware behavior. A calling of the software corresponds to hardware IP component's execution, and the procedure of the software function corresponds to the behavior of the hardware IP. Therefore, the hardware IP can be reused as a software function.