Spurious interrupt monitor

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1990-04-11

1992-08-11

Fleming, Michael R.

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364DIG1, 3642426, 3642428, 36424292, 3642622, 3642632, 364265, 371 12, G06F 946, G06F 1100, G06F 1300

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051387093

ABSTRACT:
In a microprocessor system including arbitration for an interrupt, an apparatus and method for monitoring the arbitration lines to determine whether an interrupt request is real or spurious is includued. Once an interrupt acknowledge signal is provided, the interrupting apparatus must arbitrate for the interrupt slot. If no arbitration occurs the interrupt request was spurious and bus error is activated.

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