Configurable processor system

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2005-07-19

2005-07-19

Treat, William M. (Department: 2183)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Processing control

Processing sequence control

C703S026000, C703S027000, C712S001000, C712S200000, C712S227000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06920551

ABSTRACT:
A programmable integrated circuit can be designed to emulate, on demand, one of several commonly used microprocessors. It contains a configurable instruction processing unit and a superset datapath unit. The instruction processing unit further contains a configurable microcode unit and a non-configurable sequencing unit. The programmable integrated circuit can be programmed so that a microcode compatible with a target microprocessor is installed in the configurable microcode unit. The superset datapath unit is a superset of the datapath elements of all the target microprocessors.

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