Michael J Howe

US Patent:

20210034375, Feb 4, 2021

Filed:

Jul 31, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/527580

Inventors:

- Houston TX, US
John E. Tillema - Fort Collins CO, US
Erin Hallinan - Fort Collins CO, US
Michael Joseph Howe - Fort Collins CO, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/4401
H03K 19/177
G06F 9/24

Abstract:

A method of initializing an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), the method including reading, by a boot microcode engine integrated with the ASIC, microcode from an electrically programmable non-volatile memory (EP-NVM) integrated on a same die as the ASIC. The method further includes writing the microcode onto internal memories of a micro-controller of the ASIC and initializing the micro-controller by the boot microcode engine. The method also includes loading, by the micro-controller, a full boot image from an additional storage device distinct from the EP-NVM onto the internal memories of the micro-controller and initializing the ASIC by the micro-controller based on the full boot image.