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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:
Jun. 02, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2012
Applicants:

Xiao Gang Zheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ming L. SO, Danville, CA (US);

Inventors:

Xiao Gang Zheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ming L. So, Danville, CA (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/36 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2013.01); G06F 13/36 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 8/665 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01);
Abstract

A circuit for use in a computing system including a bus interface unit and an autoload controller. The autoload controller has an input to receive an initialization signal. In response to receiving the initialization signal, the autoload controller searches for a signature using the bus interface unit and, in response to finding the signature at a signature address, loads a plurality of base addresses corresponding to a plurality of controllers from memory locations having a predetermined relationship to the address, and provides the plurality of base addresses to a control output thereof.


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