Diebold, Inc.

Intel Corporation

Keith A Drescher

Mike P Ryan

Matthew V Force

Robert Bowser

Bill Schadt

Mark D Smith

H Thomas Graef

Dale H Blackson

William Daniel Beskitt

Edward L Laskowski

Michael J Harty

Jeffrey M Eastman

Damon J Blackford

Sean T Haney

Andrew T Junkins

Mark Owens

David Schultz

Dale Horan

Mike Theriault

Ashok L Modi

Richard J Glass

Debendra Das Sharma

David W Grawrock

Bruce Querbach

Tieyu Zheng

Madhu S Athreya

Keshavan K Tiruvallur

Mark B Trobough

Chinna B Prudvi

Vui Yong Liew

Hermann Gartler

Ashok N Kabadi

Samie B Samaan

Mukesh Kataria

Jay Joseph Nejedlo

Piyush N Desai

Lyle E Cool

Russell J Wunderlich

James J Grealish

Abhijit Davare

Brian Meyer

Priyadarsan Patra

William Penner

Rahima K Mohammed

Ridvan A Sahan

John L Baudrexl

Al Modi

Arun R Ramadorai

David Sams

Wee Hoo Cheah

Yuen Tat Lee

Kapila B Udawatta

Kip C Killpack

Loren James McConnell

Kyle Markley

Christian E Iovin

Neil Dobler

Nagib Z Hakim

Timothy S Storey

Yi Amy Xia

Edwin E Parks

Padmakumar Gopal

Sanjay S Salem

David C Florey

Travis K Goff

Evan J Halprin

Jiun Long Foo

Selvakumar Raja Gopal

An apparatus and method is described herein for providing a test, validation, and debug architecture. At a target or base level, hardware hooks (Design for Test or DFx) are designed into and integrated with silicon parts. A controller may provide abstracted access to such hooks, such as through an abstraction layer that abstracts low level details of the hardware DFx. In addition, the abstraction layer through an interface, such as APIs, provides services, routines, and data structures to higher-level software/presentation layers, which are able to collect test data for validation and debug of a unit/platform under test. Moreover, the architecture potentially provides tiered (multiple levels of) secure access to the test architecture. Additionally, physical access to the test architecture for a platform may be simplified through use of a unified, bi-directional test access port, while also potentially allowing remote access to perform remote test and debug of a part/platform under test. In essence, a complete test architecture stack is described herein for test, validation, and debug of electronic parts, devices, and platforms.

Test, validation, and debug architecture

Methods and apparatus to correlate data communicated over multiple communication links are described. In one embodiment, one or more unique identifiers are transmitted by a plurality of communication links of a transmit agent. In an embodiment, the unique identifiers may be utilized to correlate data communicated over the plurality of the communication links of the transmit agent. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Multi-link correlation

In one embodiment, a state machine may enable retraining of a link, where the state machine is to be initiated responsive to an external input received from a logic analyzer coupled to the link or a periodic timer. Such external input may indicate that the logic analyzer has lost synchronization with respect to link communications, and the retraining thus enables the logic analyzer to regain resynchronization. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Enabling resynchronization of a logic analyzer

An automated banking machine () identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport () wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented, and identified. Such documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters (). When a user subsequently requests a dispense, documents stored in the storage areas are selectively picked therefrom and delivered to the user through an input/output area () of the machine. The control system () for the machine includes a terminal processor (). Identification devices identify the type and character of a document, and distinguish genuine documents, such as genuine currency bills, from unidentifiable or suspect documents.

Automated transaction machine system

An automated banking machine () identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport () wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented and identified. Such documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters (). When a user subsequently requests a dispense, documents stored in the storage areas are selectively picked therefrom and delivered to the user through an input/output area () of the machine. The control system () for the machine includes a terminal processor (). Identification devices identify the type and character of a document, and distinguish genuine documents, such as genuine currency bills, from unidentifiable or suspect documents.

A scheme for exposing internal debug values in an in-band means via debug packets that are injected sequentially with normal link traffic on a link and do not interrupt or otherwise interfere with normal operation of the link or related devices. Therefore, this proposal does not require additional pins since the debug values are exposed via debug packets in an in-band means along with normal link traffic and the debug values are exposed synchronously with normal link traffic since the debug packets are injected sequentially.

Method, apparatus and system for facilitating debug for link interconnects

An automated banking machine ( ) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport ( ) wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented and identified. Such documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters ( ). When a user subsequently requests a dispense, documents stored in the storage areas are selectively picked therefrom and delivered to the user through an input/output area ( ) of the machine. The control system ( ) for the machine includes a terminal processor ( ). Identification devices identify the type and character of a document, and distinguish genuine documents, such as genuine currency bills, from unidentifiable or suspect documents.

An automated banking machine can identify and store documents such as currency bills received by a user. The machine can then selectively recover documents from storage and dispense them to other users. Identification devices can identify the type and character of a document, and distinguish genuine documents, such as genuine currency bills, from unidentifiable or suspect documents. Each received document can be judged as either acceptable or unacceptable. Output related to the judging can be presented to the user prior to a document leaving the machine. Subsequently, responsive to receiving user authorization to deposit the acceptable documents, the acceptable documents can be stored in the machine and the unacceptable documents returned to the user.

An automated banking machine (,) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers such documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport (,) wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented and identified. Such documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters (,). When a user subsequently requests a dispense, documents stored in the storage areas are selectively picked therefrom and delivered to the user through an input/output area (,) of the machine.

Currency recycling automated banking machine

An automated banking machine (,) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport (,) wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented and identified. Such documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters (,). When a user subsequently requests a dispense, documents stored in the storage areas are selectively picked therefrom and delivered to the user through an input/output area (,) of the machine. The control system (,) for the machine includes a terminal processor (,). The terminal processor communicates with a module processor (,). The module processor (,) communicates with module controllers (,and,) which control the operation of devices. The module processor coordinates the activities of the module controllers to achieve the processing of documents reliably and at high speeds.

Control system for currency recycling automated banking machine

An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport (70) wherein documents deposited in a stack are unstacked, oriented and identified. Such documents are then routed to storage areas in recycling canisters (92, 94, 96, 98). When a user subsequently requests a dispense, documents stored in the storage areas are selectively picked therefrom and delivered to the user through an input/output area (50) of the machine. The control system (30) for the machine includes a terminal processor (548). The terminal processor communicates with a module processor (552). The module processor (552) communicates with module controllers (554, 556, 558, 560, 562 and 564) which control the operation of devices. The module processor coordinates the activities of the module controllers to achieve the processing of documents reliably and at high speeds. A special protocol is used to communicate messages between the module processors and module controllers which provides increased reliability.

Control system communication apparatus and method for currency recycling

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Olympia, WA, United States of America

Keith A Drescher