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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Applicant:
Nordic Semiconductor Asa, Trondheim, NO;
Inventor:
Joar Olai Rusten, Trondheim, NO;
Assignee:
Nordic Semiconductor ASA, Trondheim, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1668 (2013.01); G06F 12/1441 (2013.01); G06F 13/24 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01);
Abstract
A microcontroller () comprises a processor (), a memory (), a bus () connecting the processor () and the memory () and a memory watch unit (), comprising one or more memory-watch event registers and one or more configuration registers. The memory watch unit () is arranged to monitor memory access instructions on the bus (), and can be configured, using the one or more configuration registers, to (i) detect a memory access instruction for a memory address in a configurable watch region of the memory (), and (ii) change the contents of one or more memory-watch event registers in response to such a detection.