Microprocessor device
US6363459B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 28, 1998 |
| Grant date | Mar 26, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 28, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02D10/00
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The microprocessor device has a central processing unit in which the instructions that are stored in a program memory are converted into arithmetic or logical combinations for controlling the different components of the microprocessor. A data and/or control line bus enables data transfer and access to CPU-internal and/or peripheral-bound special function registers, which are assigned to the central processing unit. A coherent memory block with memory cells of the random access type is assigned to the central processing unit through the data and/or control line bus. The memory block has a dedicated address decoder and bus driver circuit, and has a first, arbitrarily usable and/or accessible memory area and a second, peripheral-independent and directly addressable memory area. The memory block is assigned an enable device which disables or enables the output of data contents from the second memory area onto the data and/or control line bus.
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