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Work station having simultaneous access to registers contained in two different interfaces

US6018781A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 19, 1992
Grant dateJan 25, 2000
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Expiry dateOct 19, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F13/4217
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A work station which includes a central processing unit (CPU), first and second interface chips connected to respective external or peripheral units, and a local bus connected to the CPU and chips and adapted for multiple byte data communication between the CPU and chips. First and second one-byte registers are included in the first and second chips, respectively, and are simultaneously accessible by the CPU.

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