English to French Law/Patents Electronics / Elect Eng

Appears in a patent for a microprocessor.

"The microprocessor of claim 1, wherein the microprocessor is configured to trap to microcode of the microprocessor in response to detecting the continuous sequence of N NOP instructions."

"The method of claim 10, further comprising: trapping to microcode of the microprocessor in response to detecting the continuous sequence of N NOP instructions."

The general idea with "trapping to microcode" is that if there is an unusual event in the execution of the normal code (such as this sequence of numbers here, or it could be an error of some sort), an exception is raised (the event is 'trapped'), and the system jumps to some code that is pre-programmed on the microchip. This sort of emergency code is called 'microcode' or 'firmware'. So 'trapping' here is like a switch that blows, and this microcode is activated.