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Apparatus for providing data dependent write operations

US5428775A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 22, 1993
Grant dateJun 27, 1995
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Expiry dateSep 22, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99956
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a computer system which includes devices capable of writing data and generating addresses to which such data is to be written, a device to which data is directed, and address, data, and control lines connecting the devices capable of writing data and generating addresses to the device to which data is directed, apparatus for placing control signals in unused bit positions of data words, apparatus for sensing the control signals placed in the data words, and apparatus responsive to the control signals placed in the data words for modifying the use made of the data.

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