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Method and apparatus for distributing and accessing configuration registers

  • US 6,073,233 A
  • Filed: 10/08/1997
  • Issued: 06/06/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for controlling configuration registers located in different nodes in a semiconductor device, comprising:

  • providing a local register bus coupled to each one of the configuration registers;

    sending an address associated with one of the configuration registers on the local register bus;

    decoding the address on the local register bus in parallel at each configuration register location;

    enabling one of the configuration registers associated with the decoded address; and

    placing an address on the local register bus and reading data loaded onto the local register bus by one of the configuration registers after a predetermined number of wait states.

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