Excavating
Patent
1981-02-23
1983-11-08
Malzahn, David H.
Excavating
364200, G06F 1122
Patent
active
044146647
ABSTRACT:
A field maintenance processor including a microprocessor that effects transparent refreshing of a dynamic memory includes a counter circuit which times the duration of the "wait" signal produced by a slow memory or a slow peripheral device accessed by the processor. The counter circuit produces a "wait enable" signal which enables the "wait" signal to produce an "enabled wait" signal that is conducted to a wait input of the processor for only a predetermined time, to ensure transparent refreshing of the entire dynamic memory. If the "wait" signal produced by the slow memory device has not ceased when the predetermined time has elapsed, the "wait enable" signal disappears, causing the "enabled wait" signal also to disappear. The disappearance of the "wait enable" signal also causes a "wait interrupt" signal to be generated and transmitted to the microprocessor, resulting in execution of an interrupt routine to determine which instruction execution was earlier halted in response to the "enabled wait" signal. The entire dynamic memory is transparently refreshed during execution of the interrupt routine.
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GenRad Inc.
Malzahn David H.
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