Inventor

CATHERWOOD MICHAEL I

US18 patents

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CATHERWOOD MICHAEL I

MICROCHIP TECH INC

Register pointer trap to prevent errors due to an invalid pointer value in a register

Reduced power option

Programmable CPU register hardware context swap mechanism

Dual boot panel SWAP mechanism

Modulo addressing based on absolute offset

Maximally negative signed fractional number multiplication

Euclidean distance instructions

Dual mode arithmetic saturation processing

MOTOROLA INC

Method and apparatus for providing erasing and programming protection for electrically erasable programmable read only memory

Microcomputer having a memory bank switching apparatus for accessing a selected memory bank in an external memory

Method and apparatus for determining wait states on a per cycle basis in a data processing system

Method for providing an extensible register in the first and second data processing systems

Integrated circuit pin control apparatus and method thereof in a data processing system

Data processor having a timer circuit for performing a buffered pulse width modulation function and method therefor

Data processor having operating modes selected by at least one mask option bit and method therefor

CATHERWOOD MICHAEL I

DSP engine with implicit mixed sign operands

Data space arbiter

Programmable exception processing latency