Agere Systems Inc.

Dale E Parson

Jay Patrick Wilshire

Bryan Schlieder

James C Vollmer

An integrated circuit or other type of digital system including multiple processors is tested using a control mechanism which dynamically defines a group of processors subject to common control. The control mechanism receives one or more commands for each of the processors in the group, and delays issuance of one or more of the commands for the group until a designated group scan command is received for each of the processors in the group. The control mechanism may be in the form of a software-implemented chain manager which provides the above-noted group definition, command receipt and issuance delay operations, and subsequently delivers one or more of the test commands as a single serial bit stream to an IEEE 1149.1 hardware scan chain associated with the processors. The control mechanism can provide synchronous control for a group of homogeneous processors of the digital system, or pseudo-synchronous control for a group of heterogeneous processors of the digital system.

Control method and apparatus for testing of multiple processor integrated circuits and other digital systems

Incremental reorganization of hash tables includes a copy phase and a clean phase. In the copy phase, used entries from an alternate hash table (AHT) are copied to a current hash table (CHT). During copying, hash table operations are allowed to access both tables. In the clean phase, entries in the AHT are marked as empty, and hash table operations are allowed to access only the CHT. Once all used entries have been copied from the AHT to the CHT, the clean phase begins. Once all entries in the AHT have been marked as empty during the clean phase, the two tables are switched and the copy phase begins. The copying or cleaning occurs with every hash table operation, a number of hash table operations, or a number based on analysis of recent hash table operations. Copying also occurs by avoiding copying of deleted or expired entries in the AHT. The present invention is suited to use in multithreaded real-time systems.

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