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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2012
Applicants:

Huy V. Nguyen, Round Rock, TX (US);

Jason W. Brandt, Austin, TX (US);

Jonathan J. Tyler, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Huy V. Nguyen, Round Rock, TX (US);

Jason W. Brandt, Austin, TX (US);

Jonathan J. Tyler, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30003 (2013.01); G06F 11/3471 (2013.01); G06F 11/3636 (2013.01); G06F 11/3648 (2013.01); G06F 11/3656 (2013.01); G06F 11/3476 (2013.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method are described for real time instruction tracing. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: recording user specified address ranges for which tracing is required; monitoring a next linear instruction pointer (NLIP) values and/or branch linear instruction pointer (BLIP) values to determine if address range has been entered; when the range is entered, compressing the NLIP and/or BLIP values and constructing fixed length packets containing the tracing data; and transferring the fixed length packets to a memory execution cluster.


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