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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2004
Applicants:
Andrew Burdass, Ely, GB;
David James Seal, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Andrew Burdass, Ely, GB;
David James Seal, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A processor coreis provided with an interrupt controllerwhich serves to set an interrupt mask bit F and a hardware control when an interrupt fiq occurs. A masking control signal NMI serves to either allow or prevent the software clearing of the interrupt mask bit F.